LEADER 05416nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910953306303321 005 20250319235720.0 010 $a9780826264039 010 $a0826264034 035 $a(CKB)1000000000005030 035 $a(OCoLC)55638423 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10019987 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000199016 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11181094 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000199016 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10184366 035 $a(PQKB)11528525 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3570721 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3570721 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10019987 035 $a(OCoLC)56424969 035 $a(BIP)11494340 035 $a(BIP)7544993 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000005030 100 $a20020220d2002 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMaternal body and voice in Toni Morrison, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Lee Smith /$fPaula Gallant Eckard 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aColumbia $cUniversity of Missouri Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (245 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780826214027 311 08$a0826214029 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 207-216) and index. 327 $aIntro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Introduction -- 1 Historical and Theoretical Perspectives on Motherhood -- 2 The Bluest Eye -- 3 Sula -- 4 Beloved -- 5 In Country -- 6 Spence + Lila -- 7 Feather Crowns -- 8 Oral History -- 9 Fair and Tender Ladies -- 10 Saving Grace -- 11 Conclusion -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX. 330 $aThroughout human history, motherhood and maternal experience have been largely defined and written by patriarchal culture. Religion, art, medicine, psychoanalysis, and other bastions of male power have objectified the maternal and have disregarded female subjectivity. As a result, maternal perspectives have been ignored and the mother's voice silenced. In recent literary texts, however, more substantial attention has been given to motherhood and to the physical, psychological, social, and cultural dynamics affecting maternal experience. In Maternal Body and Voice in Toni Morrison, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Lee Smith, Paula Gallant Eckard examines how maternal experience is depicted in selected novels by three American writers, emphasizing how they focus on the body and the voice of the mother. These novels include: The Bluest Eye, Sula, and Beloved by Morrison; In Country, Spence + Lila, and Feather Crowns by Mason; and Oral History, Fair and Tender Ladies, and Saving Grace by Smith. By employing this focus, these writers lessen the objectification the maternal has received and restore a rich subjectivity that foregrounds the mother's perspective. Moreover, their fiction reflects a deep concern for history and culture and for a woman's experience of her world. They challenge the traditional representations of black and white motherhood that have appeared in southern literature and society, rendering complex portrayals of motherhood that defy cultural stereotypes. Eckard incorporates historical perspectives on African American and southern motherhood, utilizing the works of Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Sally McMillen, Deborah White, Jacqueline Jones, and others. She draws upon the feminist criticism of Adrienne Rich, Elaine Showalter, Naomi Schor, Tillie Olsen, Karla F. C. Holloway, Barbara Christian, and others, and the linguistic and psychoanalytic theories of Julia Kristeva, He?le?ne Cixous, and Luce Irigaray. The author also addresses the cross-cultural connections shared by Morrison, Mason, and Smith, showing that, despite their racial and cultural differences, striking similarities can be found in their renderings of maternity. The three women writers employ related image patterns, metaphors, and symbols involving the maternal body. By centering maternity so strongly in their novels, Morrison, Mason, and Smith establish the primacy of the mother and obviate the neglect to which maternal perspectives have been subjected. They restore the mother's lost voice and her diminished subjectivity. 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Menahem ben Benjamin : thirteenth-century kabbalistic and Ashkenazi manuscripts in italy -- R. Menahem ben Benjamin Recanati -- Menahem Recanati as a theosophical-theurgical kabbalist -- Menahem Recanati's hermeneutics -- Ecstatic kabbalah from the fourteenth through mid-fifteenth centuries -- The kabbalistic-philosophical-magical exchanges in Italy -- Prisca theologia : R. Isaac Abravanel, Leone Ebreo, and R. Elijah Hayyim of Genazzano -- R. Yohanan ben Yitzhaq Alemanno -- Jewish mystical thought in Lorenzo il Magnifico's Florence -- Other mystical and magical literatures in Renaissance Florence -- Spanish kabbalists in Italy after the expulsion -- Diverging types of kabbalah in late-fifteenth-century Italy -- Jewish kabbalah in Christian garb -- Anthropoids from the Middle Ages to Renaissance Italy -- Astromagical pneumatic anthropoids from medieval Spain to Renaissance Italy -- The trajectory of eastern kabbalah and its reverberations in Italy -- Concluding remarks. 330 $aThis sweeping survey of the history of Kabbalah in Italy represents a major contribution from one of the world's foremost Kabbalah scholars. The first to focus attention on a specific center of Kabbalah, Moshe Idel charts the ways that Kabbalistic thought and literature developed in Italy and how its unique geographical situation facilitated the arrival of both Spanish and Byzantine Kabbalah.Idel analyzes the work of three major Kabbalists-Abraham Abulafia, Menahem Recanati, and Yohanan Alemanno-who represent diverse schools of thought: the ecstatic, the theosophical-theurgical, and the astromagical. 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