Portrait of the mother-artist : class and creativity in contemporary American fiction / Nancy Gerber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gerber, Nancy, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Mothers in literature.

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Mother and child in literature.

Social classes in literature.

Women artists in literature.

Creativity in literature.

Motherhood in literature.

Artists in literature.

Physical Description:

xv, 99 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2003]

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Artist in the Mother and the Textual Possibilities of Creativity 1

Chapter 2 A Poet in the Kitchen: Gwendolyn Brooks's / Maud Martha 23

Chapter 3 The Poet at the Crossroads: Breaking the Silence in Tillie Olsen's "I Stand Here Ironing" and "Tell Me a Riddle" 39

Chapter 4 The Ghosts of History: Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl 57

Chapter 5 Rewriting the Marassa: Storytelling and Healing the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory 69.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-88) and index.

ISBN:

0739105442

OCLC:

50583596