Mothers and strangers : essays on motherhood from the new South / edited by Samia Serageldin and Lee Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Serageldin, Samia, editor.

Smith, Lee, 1944- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mothers--Southern States.

Mothers.

Mother and child.

Southern States.

Genre:

Essays.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 247 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]

Summary:

"In this anthology of creative nonfiction, twenty-eight writers set out to discover what they know, and don't know, about the person they call 'Mother.' ... Writers Lee Smith and Samia Serageldin have curated a diverse and insightful collection that challenges stereotypes about mothers and expands our notions of motherhood in the South. The mothers in these essays were shaped, for good and bad, by the economic and political crosswinds of their time. Whether their formative experience was the Great Depression or the upheavals of the 1970s, their lives reflected their era and influenced how they raised their children. The writers in 'Mothers and Strangers' explore the reliability of memory, examine their family dynamics, and come to terms with the past"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A beautiful mother / Marianne Gingher

The imagined sorrows of my mother's face /

Michael Malone

You dumb bell / James Seay

From Tehran to Florida : Pouri joon's fierce love / Omid Safi

I want to undie you / Jaki Shelton Green

Are you my mother? / Jill McCorkle

Child bride / Daniel Wallace

Settling into marriage / Phillip Lopate

Encore / Alan Shapiro

Frankye / Frances Mayes

Shut up! We're going to the Masters / Marshall Chapman

Helen of Marion, the woman behind the velvet mask / E.C. Hanes

Estate sale / Sally Greene

The good fight / Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

The Persian Mom Mafia / Melody Moezzi

La chingona / Stephanie Elizondo Griest

Scuppernongs and beef fat : some things about the women who raised me / Randall Kenan

My mother, my muse / Clyde Edgerton

Ties that blind / Hal Crowther

Beatrice and Mamie / Belle Boggs

Keeping secrets / Sharon K. Swanson

The curse of living in interesting times / Samia Serageldin

Drag racing to the promised land / Lynden Harris

This is your mom / Elaine Neil Orr

One hundred years of letters / Margaret W. Rich

A mother and son reunion / Steven Petrow

The last word / Bland Simpson.

ISBN:

9781469651675

146965167X

OCLC:

1078971443