| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Maternal body and voice in Toni Morrison, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Lee Smith/ Paula Gallant Eckard. |
| Author: |
Eckard, Paula Gallant. |
| Published: |
Columbia :University of Missouri Press, : c2002., |
| Description: |
xv, 227 p. ;24 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
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." |
| Subject: |
American fiction - Women authors - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=113916An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0826264034 (electronic bk.) |