Format:
Online-Ressource (400 p.)
ISBN:
9781554581801
Content:
Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts focuses on mothers as subjects and as writers who produce auto/biography, fiction, and poetry about maternity. International contributors examine the mother without child, with child, and in her multiple identities as grandmother, mother, and daughter. The collection examines how authors use textual spaces to accept, negotiate, resist, or challenge traditional conceptions of mothering and maternal roles, and how these texts offer alternative practices and visions for mothers. Further, it illuminates how textual representations both reflect and help to defin
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Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Maternal Literatures in Text and Tradition: Daughter-Centric, Matrilineal, and Matrifocal Perspectives; Part 1: Maternal Absence; Part 2: Maternal Ambivalence; Part 3: Maternal Agency; Part 4: Maternal Communication; Coda: "Stories to Live By": Maternal Literatures and Motherhood Studies; Notes on the Contributors; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781554582921
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781554581801
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts : Motherhood in Contemporary Women's Literatures
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
