Wild mother dancing : maternal narrative in Canadian literature / Di Brandt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brandt, Di, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mothers in literature.

First person narrative.

Canadian fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

Canadian fiction.

Canadian fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 p.)

Place of Publication:

[Winnipeg, Man.] : University of Manitoba Press, c1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Wild Mother Dancing challenges the historical absence of the mother, who, as subject and character, has been repeatedly suppressed and edited out of the literary canon. In her search for sources for telling the new (or old, forbidden story) against a tradition of narrative absence, Brandt turns to Canadian fiction representing a varety of cultural traditions - Margaret Laurence, Daphne Marlatt, Jovette Marchessault, Joy Kogawa, Sky Lee - and a collection of oral interviews about childbirth told by Mennonite women. The results broaden, enrich, and finally recover the motherstory in ways that have revolutionary implications for our institutions and imaginations.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Prologue in the First Person""; ""The Absent Mother, An Introduction""; ""The Absent Mother's (Amazing) Comeback: Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel and The Diviners""; ""Re-membering with Mothertongue: Daphne Marlatt's Search for the Absent Mother in Language""; ""These Our Grand-mothers: Jovette Marchessault's Like a Child of the Earth, Mother of the Grass and White Pebbles in the Dark Forests""; ""Silent Mothers / Noisy Daughters: Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Sky Lee's Disappearing Moon Cafe""

""""Everyone has their own story to tell"": Katherine Martens in Conversation with Seven Women""""Coda""; ""Notes""; ""References""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-188).

ISBN:

9786613091390

9781283091398

1283091399

9780887553936

0887553931

OCLC:

1162270488