Umfang:
Online-Ressource (400 p.)
ISBN:
9781554581801
Inhalt:
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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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;
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781554582921
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ISBN 9781554581801
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts : Motherhood in Contemporary Women's Literatures
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
