Toni Morrison on mothers and motherhood / edited by Lee Baxter and Martha Satz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baxter, Lee, editor.

Satz, Martha, 1943- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019--Criticism and interpretation.

Morrison, Toni.

Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019--Characters.

Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019.

Mothers in literature.

Motherhood in literature.

Characters and characteristics.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xi, 273 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Bradford, ON : Demeter Press, [2017]

Summary:

"This collection of essays explores the gamut of Toni Morrison's novels from her earliest to her most recent. Each of the essays examines the various ways in which Morrison's work delineates and interrogates Western culture's ideological norms of mothers, motherhood, and mothering. The essays consider Morrison's female, and in some cases male, characters as challenging the concept that mothering and motherhood is a stable notion. The essays reveal both that mothering is a central concept in Morrison's work and that an examination of this pervasive notion illuminates her corpus as a whole. Toni Morrison and Mothers/Motherhood offers a wide range of scholarship that provides a compelling look at Morrison's work through an array of interdisciplinary approaches that are grounded in feminist/gender studies. This interdisciplinary collection of essays will be of interest to scholars and critics concerned with the notions of how we define mother/motherhood/mothering and the problem of its interpretation within Western society as well as those engaged in the interpretation of African-American literature, Morrison's work in particular."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1772581046

9781772581041

OCLC:

972974166

Publisher Number:

99972795270