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Maternal body and voice in Toni Morrison, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Lee Smith /

"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 per...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Eckard, Paula Gallant
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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."