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

Author: Paula Gallant Eckard
Publisher: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2002.
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"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  Read more...
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Eckard, Paula Gallant.
Maternal body and voice in Toni Morrison, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Lee Smith.
Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2002
(OCoLC)606754729
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.

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"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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