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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495879603321

Autore

Hansen Elaine Tuttle <1947->

Titolo

Mother without child : contemporary fiction and the crisis of motherhood / / Elaine Tuttle Hansen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [1997]

ISBN

0-585-34897-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 283 pages)

Disciplina

813/.54093520431

Soggetti

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Mothers in literature

Women in literature

Motherhood in literature

English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Feminism and literature - English-speaking countries

Women and literature - English-speaking countries

Femininity in literature

Mother and child in literature

Love, Maternal, in literature

American Literature

English

Languages & Literatures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-276) and index.

Nota di contenuto

A sketch in progress : introducing the mother without child -- Not a synthetic maternity : Jane Rule's fiction -- Claiming the monstrosity in Alice Walker's Meridian -- What if your mother never meant to? : the novels of Louise Erdrich & Michael Dorris -- Mothers yesterday and mothers tomorrow, but never mothers today : Woman on the edge of time & The handmaid's tale -- Fay Weldon's Mad dolls -- Feminism is [not] a luxury.