Research Catalog

Title

Mothers and strangers : essays on motherhood from the new South / edited by Samia Serageldin and Lee Smith.

Publication

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Serageldin, Samia
• Smith, Lee, 1944-

Description

xiii, 247 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"In this anthology of creative nonfiction, twenty-eight writers set out to discover what they know, and don't know, about the person they call 'Mother.' ... Writers Lee Smith and Samia Serageldin have curated a diverse and insightful collection that challenges stereotypes about mothers and expands our notions of motherhood in the South. The mothers in these essays were shaped, for good and bad, by the economic and political crosswinds of their time. Whether their formative experience was the Great Depression or the upheavals of the 1970s, their lives reflected their era and influenced how they raised their children. The writers in 'Mothers and Strangers' explore the reliability of memory, examine their family dynamics, and come to terms with the past"--

Subjects

• Autobiographies
• Southern States
• Essays
• Mother and child
• Mothers > Southern States

Genre/Form

• Autobiographies.
• Essays.

Contents

A beautiful mother / Marianne Gingher -- The imagined sorrows of my mother's face / -- Michael Malone -- You dumb bell / James Seay -- From Tehran to Florida : Pouri joon's fierce love / Omid Safi -- I want to undie you / Jaki Shelton Green -- Are you my mother? / Jill McCorkle -- Child bride / Daniel Wallace -- Settling into marriage / Phillip Lopate -- Encore / Alan Shapiro -- Frankye / Frances Mayes -- Shut up! We're going to the Masters / Marshall Chapman -- Helen of Marion, the woman behind the velvet mask / E.C. Hanes -- Estate sale / Sally Greene -- The good fight / Jacquelyn Dowd Hall -- The Persian Mom Mafia / Melody Moezzi -- La chingona / Stephanie Elizondo Griest -- Scuppernongs and beef fat : some things about the women who raised me / Randall Kenan -- My mother, my muse / Clyde Edgerton -- Ties that blind / Hal Crowther -- Beatrice and Mamie / Belle Boggs -- Keeping secrets / Sharon K. Swanson -- The curse of living in interesting times / Samia Serageldin -- Drag racing to the promised land / Lynden Harris -- This is your mom / Elaine Neil Orr -- One hundred years of letters / Margaret W. Rich -- A mother and son reunion / Steven Petrow -- The last word / Bland Simpson.

Call Number

JFE 19-1194

ISBN

• 9781469651675
• 146965167X

LCCN

• 2018051000
• 40028983107

OCLC

1078971443

Title

Mothers and strangers : essays on motherhood from the new South / edited by Samia Serageldin and Lee Smith.

Publisher

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Serageldin, Samia, editor.

Smith, Lee, 1944- editor.

Other Standard Identifier

40028983107

Research Call Number

JFE 19-1194