Research Catalog

Title

Textual mothers / maternal texts : motherhood in contemporary women's literatures / Elizabeth Podnieks and Andrea O'Reilly, editors.

Publication

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfred Laurier University Press, c2010.

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Additional Authors

• O'Reilly, Andrea, 1961-
• Podnieks, Elizabeth, 1964-
• Podnieks, Elizabeth.

Description

xi, 387 p.; 23 cm.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• American literature > History and criticism
• Canadian literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• Canadian literature > History and criticism
• Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique
• Littérature canadienne > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique
• Maternité dans la littérature
• Mother and child in literature
• Motherhood in literature
• Mothers in literature
• Mère et enfant dans la littérature
• Mères dans la littérature
• Écrits de femmes américains > Histoire et critique
• Écrits de femmes canadiens > Histoire et critique

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• pt. 1 : Maternal absence. Aberrant, absent, alienated : reading the maternal in Jane Urquhart's first two novels, The whirlpool and Changing heaven / Myrl Coulter -- Motherless daughters : the absent mothers in Margaret Atwood / Nancy Peled -- Writing about abusive mothers : ethics and auto/biography / Kate Douglas -- "Red mother" : the missing mother plot as double mystery in Louise Erdrich's fiction / Sheila Hassell Hughes -- "This was her punishment" : Jew, whore, mother in the fiction of Adele Wiseman and Lilian Nattel / Ruth Panofsky -- pt. 2 : Maternal ambivalence. Eden Robinson's "Dogs in winter" : parodic extremes of mothering / Nathalie Foy -- Subverting the saintly mother : the novels of Gabrielle Poulin / Kathleen Kellett-Betsos -- "Opaque with confusion and shame" : maternal ambivalence in Rita Dove's poetry / Elizabeth Beaulieu -- Maternal Blitz : Harriet Lovatt as postpartum sufferer in Doris Lessing's The fifth child / Denys Landry -- We need to talk about gender : mothering and masculinity in Lionel Shriver's We need to talk about Kevin / Emily Jeremiah.
• pt. 3 : Maternal agency. Narrating maternal subjectivity : memoirs from motherhood / Joanne S. Frye -- The motherhood memoir and the "new momism" : biting the hand that feeds you / Andrea O'Reilly -- "I had to make a future, willful, voluble, lascivious" : Minnie Bruce Pratt's disruptive lesbian maternal narratives / Susan Driver -- Lesbian mothering in contemporary French literature / Gill Rye -- But she's a mom! Sex, motherhood, and the poetry of Sharon Olds / Rita Jones -- (Grand)mothering "Children of the apocalypse" : A post-postmodern ecopoetic reading of Margaret Laurence's The diviners / Di Brandt -- pt. 4 : Maternal communication. Colonialism's impact on mothering : Jamaica Kincaid's rendering of the mother--daughter split in Annie John / Nicole Willey -- Mother to daughter : muted maternal feminism in the fiction of Sandra Cisneros / Rita Bode -- Cracking (mother) India / Tanja Stampfl -- Asian American mothering in the absence of talk story : obasan and Chorus of mushrooms / Anne-Marie Lee-Loy -- Baby, Boo-Boo, and Bobs : The matrilineal auto/biographies of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, Frances Scott Fitzgerald, and Eleanor Lanahan / Elizabeth Podnieks -- Revelations and representations : birth stories and motherhood on the internet / Kim Hensley Owens -- Coda : "Stories to live by" : maternal literatures and motherhood studies / Andrea O'Reilly.

ISBN

• 9781554581801
• 155458180X

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library