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From the personal to the political : toward a new theory of maternal narrative / edited by Andrea O'Reilly and Silvia Caporale Bizzini.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
O'Reilly, Andrea, 1961-
Caporale-Bizzini, Silvia.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Motherhood.
Motherhood in literature.
Mothers in literature.
Mothers--Biography--History and criticism.
Mothers.
Genre:
Biographies.
Physical Description:
264 pages ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Selinsgrove [Pa.] : Susquehanna University Press, [2009]
Contents:
Part I Maternal Stories: From Experience to Praxis
Writing as a Practice of Resistance: Motherhood, Identity, and Representation / Silvia Caporale Bizzini 37
Narrating the (Lone) Maternal Subject: The Validation Stories of "Ordinary Women in Extraordinary Circumstances" / Lesley Patterson 50
White Mothers of Chinese Daughters: Real Mothers of Real Children / Sonya Corbin Dwyer, Lynn Gidluck 71
"Your Shopping Cart Is Empty" : Social Texts of Single Motherhood and the Discomforts of Discourse / Ann Elizabeth Willey 86
The Paradox of Separation and Dependency: A Mother's Story / Jenny Jones 101
"My Mum's Dyke" : Maternal Subjectivities in Midlife Transition from a Heterosexual to a Lesbian Identity / Susan Kentlyn 114
The Maternal Autobiography in Performance / Beth Osnes 124
Part II Maternal Texts: From Narrative to Theory
Maternal Fetters: Motherhood and Slavehood in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl / Mary McCartin Wearn 143
The Dialogics of the Sexual-Maternal: Multiple Births in Gilman and Le Sueur / Carolina Núñez Puente 156
The Mother in Mourning as the Subject of Autobiography in Rosamond Lehmann's The Swan in the Evening: Fragments of an Inner Life / Nóra Séllei 170
Implicated in a Color Change: Darkening the Picture of Jane Lazarre's Maternal Transracial Memoir / Martha Satz 183
Coalescence in Evolution: Queer Familia in Cherríe Moraga's Waiting in the Wings / R Joyce Z. L. Garay 195
Babies and Boundaries: Mother-Speaking in Rachel Cusk's A Life's Work / Celia Shiffer 210
Maternal Subjectivity: A Kristevan Reading of Anne Enright's Memoir, Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood / Heather Ingman 225
The Motherhood Memoir and the "New Momism" : Biting the Hand that Feeds You / Andrea O'Reilly 238.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781575911298
1575911299
OCLC:
302099444

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