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Textual mothers / maternal texts

motherhood in contemporary women's literatures

By Elizabeth Podnieks,Andrea O'Reilly

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Publish Date

2010

Publisher

Wilfred Laurier University Press

Language

eng

Pages

387

Description:

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 help to define o.