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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Eckard, Paula Gallant. Maternal body and voice in Toni Morrison, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Lee Smith. Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2002 (OCoLC)606754729 |
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| Named Person: | Lee Smith; Bobbie Ann Mason; Toni Morrison; Bobbie Ann Mason; Lee Smith; Bobbie Ann Mason; Toni Morrison; Bobbie Ann Mason; Lee Smith; Toni Morrison |
| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Paula Gallant Eckard |
| ISBN: | 0826214029 9780826214027 |
| OCLC Number: | 49284199 |
| Description: | xv, 227 p. ; 24 cm. |
| 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." |
| Responsibility: | Paula Gallant Eckard. |
Abstract:
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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- American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
- Mothers in literature.
- Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- Smith, Lee, -- 1944- -- Characters -- Mothers.
- Mason, Bobbie Ann -- Characters -- Mothers.
- Morrison, Toni -- Characters -- Mothers.
- Mother and child in literature.
- Human body in literature.
- Motherhood in literature.
- Voice in literature.
- Mason, Bobbie Ann, -- 1940- -- Characters -- Mothers.
- Smith, Lee, -- 1944- -- Personnages -- Mères.
- Mason, Bobbie Ann -- Personnages -- Mères.
- Morrison, Toni -- Personnages -- Mères.
- Roman américain -- Histoire et critique.
- Mères dans la littérature.
- Femmes et littérature -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
- Roman américain -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
- Mère et enfant dans la littérature.
- Corps humain dans la littérature.
- Maternité dans la littérature.
- Voix dans la littérature.
- Écrits de femmes américains -- Histoire et critique.
- Fictie.
- Amerikaans.
- Moeder-kind-relaties.
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- Menselijk lichaam.
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- Smith, Lee.
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