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Maternal conditions : reading Kingsolver, Castillo, Erdrich, and Ozeki
- Title
- Maternal conditions : reading Kingsolver, Castillo, Erdrich, and Ozeki / Melissa Schoeffel.
- Author
- Schoeffel, Melissa A., 1971-
- Publication
- New York : Peter Lang, [2008], ©2008.
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Details
- Description
- 173 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Maternal Conditions analyzes the depiction of motherhood in the works of Barbara Kingsolver, Ana Castillo, Louise Erdrich, and Ruth Ozeki. The book examines the politics underlying and engendered by ethnically diverse representations of the maternal, interrogating the dominant cultural understanding of the good mother. This analysis then moves to a study of how the subjective experience of mothers is portrayed in these writings, ending with an exploration of the relationship between motherhood and ethics."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- American university studies. Series XXIV, American literature, 0895-0512 ; v. 78
- Uniform Title
- American university studies. Series XXIV, American literature ; v. 78.
- Subject
- Kingsolver, Barbara > Criticism and interpretation
- Castillo, Ana > Criticism and interpretation
- Erdrich, Louise > Criticism and interpretation
- Ozeki, Ruth L. > Criticism and interpretation
- Motherhood in literature
- American literature > History and criticism
- Mothers in literature
- Multiculturalism in literature
- Feminism and literature > United States > History > 20th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-167) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Origin Stories -- Pt. 1. The Politics of "the Good Mother" -- Ch. 1. Politics and Motherhood in Barbara Kingsolver's The Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven -- Ch. 2. Motherhood of the Absurd in Ana Castillo's So Far From God and Massacre of the Dreamers -- Pt. 2. The Maternal Subject, "Cracked Apart" -- Ch. 3. "A Savage Coherence" in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine and The Antelope Wife -- Ch. 4. Thinking Through the Pregnant Body in Ruth Ozeki's My Year of Meats and All Over Creation -- Conclusion: Creation in Loss, Excess from Absence.
- ISBN
- 9781433101472 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 1433101475 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008037052
- 40016063280
- OCLC
- ocn245536190
- 245536190
- SCSB-5443918
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries