Maternal body and voice in Toni Morrison, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Lee Smith

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"Throughout 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."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Mothers in literature,  Women and literature,  Mothers,  Voice in literature,  History and criticism,  Motherhood in literature,  Women authors,  Mother and child in literature,  Characters,  American fiction,  Body, Human, in literature,  History,  Human body in literature,  Corps humain dans la littérature,  Menselijk lichaam,  Écrits de femmes américains,  Moederschap,  Histoire et critique,  Maternité dans la littérature,  Mères,  Amerikaans,  Roman américain,  Personnages,  Histoire,  Mutter,  Fictie,  Moeder-kind-relaties,  Voix dans la littérature,  Mère et enfant dans la littérature,  Femmes et littérature,  Mères dans la littérature

People: Bobbie Ann Mason,  Lee Smith (1944-),  Toni Morrison (1931-2019)

Places: United States

Times: 20th century