| Description |
xviii, 233 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Southern literary studies
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Mothers and daughters : the tie that binds / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese -- Introduction / Nagueyalti Warren and Sally Wolff -- Hearing my mad mother's voices / Minrose Gwin -- "Following the condition of the mother" : subversions of domesticity in Harriet Jacob's Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Caroline Levander -- Mothers, grandmothers, and great-grandmothers : the maternal tradition in Margaret Walker's Jubilee / Betty Taylor-Thompson and Gladys Washington -- Kate Chopin's motherless heroine / Virginia Ross -- "White mamma ... black mammy" : replacing the absent mother in the works of Ruth McEnery Stuart / Joan Wylie Hall -- Old order undermined : daughters, mothers, and grandmothers in Katherine Anne Porter's Miranda tales / Mary Ann Wimsatt -- What ever happened to Jochebed? Motherhood as marginality in Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee / Carol P. Marsh-Lockett -- Waste land women of The wave / Lucinda H. MacKethan -- "I have not wallowed" : Flannery O'Connor's working mothers / Cindy Beringer -- Mothers, daughters, and The golden apples / Helen Hurt Tiegreen -- Separate self : identity and tradition in the fiction of Gail Godwin and Ellen Glasgow / Kathryn Lee Seidel -- "Everyday use" and Incidents in the life a slave girl : escaping antebellum confinement / Charles E. Wilson, Jr. -- Resistant mothers in Alice Walker's Meridian and Tina McElroy Ansa's Ugly ways / Nagueyalti Warren -- From grandmother to mother to me : birth narratives and tradition in the fiction of southern women / Rosemary M. Magee. |
| Subject |
American fiction -- Southern States -- History and criticism.
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Mothers in literature.
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American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Women -- Southern States -- Intellectual life.
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Women and literature -- Southern States.
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Mothers and daughters in literature.
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Southern States -- In literature.
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Motherhood in literature.
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| Added Author |
Warren, Nagueyalti, 1947-
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Wolff, Sally.
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| ISBN |
0807125083 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0807124001 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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