Description |
1 online resource (xv, 227 pages) |
Contents |
Historical and theoretical perspectives on motherhood -- Toni Morrison. The bluest eye : the inverted maternal -- Sula : finding the peace of the mother's body -- Beloved : historical realities/maternal mythologies -- Bobbie Ann Mason. In country : mothers, dead babies, and war -- Spence + Lila : memory, landscape, and the mother's body -- Feather crowns : commodifying Southern motherhood -- Lee Smith. Oral history : telling the mother's story -- Fair and tender ladies : letters, language, and maternal subjectivity -- Saving grace : mediating the matriarchal-patriarchal dichotomy -- Conclusion : "listening to the stories that mothers have to tell." |
Summary |
"Throughout human history, motherhood and maternal experience have been largely defined and written by patriarchal culture. Religion, art, medicine, psychoanalysis, and other bastions of male power have objectified the maternal and have disregarded female subjectivity. As a result, maternal perspectives have been ignored and the mother's voice silenced. In recent literary texts, however, more substantial attention has been given to motherhood and to the physical, psychological, social, and cultural dynamics affecting maternal experience. In Maternal Body and Voice in Toni Morrison, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Lee Smith, Paula Gallant Eckard examines how maternal experience is depicted in selected novels by three American writers, emphasizing how they focus on the body and the voice of the mother."--Jacket |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216) and index |
Notes |
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Subject |
Smith, Lee, 1944- -- Characters -- Mothers
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Mason, Bobbie Ann -- Characters -- Mothers
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Morrison, Toni -- Characters -- Mothers
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Morrison, Toni 1931-2019 -- Crítica e interpretación embne |
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Mason, Bobbie Ann fast |
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Morrison, Toni fast |
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Smith, Lee, 1944- fast |
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Mason, Bobbie Ann. swd |
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Smith, Lee. swd |
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Morrison, Toni. swd |
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American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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Mothers in literature.
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Mother and child in literature.
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Human body in literature.
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Motherhood in literature.
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Voice in literature.
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American fiction -- History and criticism
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American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American literature -- Women authors
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American fiction
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American fiction -- Women authors
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Human body in literature
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Mother and child in literature
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Motherhood in literature
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Mothers in literature
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Voice in literature
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Women and literature
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Mutter Motiv
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Fictie.
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Amerikaans.
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Moeder-kind-relaties.
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Moederschap.
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Menselijk lichaam.
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United States
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
0826264034 |
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9780826264039 |
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