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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.
- Format:
- Book
- 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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