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

• Pubblicazione: Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfred Laurier University Press, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (400 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.9/35252
• Soggetto topico: Mothers in literature; Motherhood in literature; Mother and child in literature; Canadian literature - Women authors - History and criticism; American literature - Women authors - History and criticism; Canadian literature - 20th century - History and criticism; American literature - 20th century - History and criticism
• Altri autori: PodnieksElizabeth O'ReillyAndrea <1961->
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Maternal absence -- Maternal ambivalence -- Maternal agency -- Maternal communication.
• Sommario/riassunto: Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts focuses on mothers as subjects and as writers who produce auto/biography, fiction, and poetry about maternity. International contributors examine the mother without child, with child, and in her multiple identities as grandmother, mother, and daughter. The collection examines how authors use textual spaces to accept, negotiate, resist, or challenge traditional conceptions of mothering and maternal roles, and how these texts offer alternative practices and visions for mothers. Further, it illuminates how textual representations both reflect and
• Titolo autorizzato: Textual mothers
• ISBN: 1-282-53438-6; 9786612534386; 1-55458-292-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785001603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II