Absent mothers / edited by Frances Greenslade.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Greenslade, Frances, 1961- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Absentee mothers.

Mothers in literature.

Mother and child.

Physical Description:

vi, 119 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Bradford, ON : Demeter Press, [2017]

Summary:

"Missing, dead, disappeared, or otherwise absent mothers haunt us and the stories we tell ourselves. Our literature, from fairytales like Cinderella and the Little Mermaid to popular narratives like Cheryl Strayed's recent book Wild, is peopled with motherless children. The absent mother, whether in literature or life, may force us to forge an independent identity. But she can also leave a mother-shaped hole and a howling loneliness that dogs us through our adult lives. This anthology explores the theme of absent mothers from scholars and creative writers, who tell personal stories and provide the theoretical framework to recognize and begin to understand the impact of motherlessness that ripples through our cultures and our art."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Fances Greenslade

Dying to create a hero: changing meanings of death in childbirth? / Berit Åström

"Is mother all right?" : an exploration fo the maternal figure-absent yet present- in dementia care / Esther Ramsay-Jones

May breath: poetics aainst Canada's ongoing settler colonial violence toward indigenous women and mothers / Sarah de Leeuw

My Nehiyaw mother / Randy Lundy

Remembering the mothers of the stolen children: a discussion of the representation of mothers in Jane Harrison's play 'Stolen' / Emma Dalton

Mother India / Subimal Misra, translated by V. Ramaswamy

Speaking from beyond the grave: abjection and the maternal corpses of William Faulkner's 'As I lay dying' and Suzan-Lori Parks's 'Getting mother's body' / Bianca Batti

Blue robe / Bernadette Wagner

Mother-witch and other poems / Courtney Bates-Hardy

Notes from Tinkle / Madhulika Liddle

Mushrooms and memory / Monica Meneghetti

The orchard / Monica Meneghetti.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781772581232

1772581232

OCLC:

1004519797