Mothering across cultures : postcolonial representations / Angelita Reyes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reyes, Angelita Dianne.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people in literature.

Slavery in literature.

Women in literature.

Literature, Modern--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Blending the personal and the historical, the practical and the theoretical, Angelita Reyes draws on a wide range of texts from Africa and the African diaspora to establish mothering as a paradigm of progressive feminisms. Reyes creates a comparative dialogue among the fictions of five postcolonial women writers: Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Simone Schwarz-Bart, Jean Rhys, and Mariama Bâ.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: I'm Not Mad, I'm Postcolonial, a Woman, and a Mother; ONE: Taking Flight and Taking Foot: From Margaret Garner to Beloved; TWO: Surrogate Mothering: Maroon Nanny, Jean Rhys, and Marronage; THREE: Refusing to Live on Scent: Textures of Memory by Way of Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle; FOUR: Crossing Bridges and Memory-Telling: Une si longue lettre; FIVE: From a Lineage of Southern Women: She Has Left Us Empty and Full of Her; APPENDIXES; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-237) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8550-9

OCLC:

191936295