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Southern mothers : fact and fictions in Southern women's writing

Title
Southern mothers : fact and fictions in Southern women's writing / edited by Nagueyalti Warren and Sally Wolff ; with a foreword by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese.
Publication
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c1999.

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Additional Authors
  • Warren, Nagueyalti, 1947-
  • Wolff, Sally.
Description
xviii, 233 p.; 22 cm.
Series Statement
Southern literary studies
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • 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 -- The 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 -- The waste land women of The wave / Lucinda H. MacKethan -- "I have not wallowed" : Flannery O'Connnor's working mothers / Cindy Beringer -- Mothers, daughters, and The golden apples / Helen Hurt Tiegreen -- The 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.
Call Number
JFD 00-775
ISBN
  • 0807124001 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0807125083 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
99016973
OCLC
41564988
Title
Southern mothers : fact and fictions in Southern women's writing / edited by Nagueyalti Warren and Sally Wolff ; with a foreword by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese.
Imprint
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c1999.
Series
Southern literary studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Warren, Nagueyalti, 1947-
Wolff, Sally.
Research Call Number
JFD 00-775
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