Maternal body and voice in Toni Morrison, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Lee Smith
Record details
- ISBN: 9780826264039
- ISBN: 0826264034
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xv, 227 pages)
remote - Publisher: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2002.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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." |
Restrictions on Access Note: | Restrictions unspecified NLC staff and students only. |
Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. |
System Details Note: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 |
Action Note: | digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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