Southern mothers : fact and fictions in southern women's writing / edited by Nagueyalti Warren and Sally Wolff ; with a foreword by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Warren, Nagueyalti.

Wolff, Sally.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--Southern States--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Women and literature.

History.

Southern States.

Mothers in literature.

American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

American fiction--Women authors.

Women and literature--Southern States--History.

Mothers and daughters in literature.

Southern States--In literature.

Motherhood in literature.

Physical Description:

xviii, 233 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [1999]

Summary:

Southern Mothers, a collection of critical essays by prominent southern literary scholars, examines the significance of motherhood in southern fiction. The belle, the mammy, religion, and racism are several of the distinctive threads with which southern women writers have woven the fabric of their stories. Bringing southern motherhood into focus -- with all its peculiarities of attitude and tradition -- the essays speak to both the established and the unconventional modes of motherhood that are typical in southern writing and probe the extent to which southern women writers have rejected or embraced, supported or challenged the individual, social, and cultural understanding and institution of motherhood.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0807124001

OCLC:

41564988