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.

Canadian fiction--Women authors.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 188 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Winnipeg, Man.] : University of Manitoba Press, ©1993.

System Details:

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

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:

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 Café

“Everyone has their own story to tell” : Katherine Martens in conversation with seven women.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-188).

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Brandt, Diana. Wild mother dancing.

ISBN:

9780887553936

0887553931

9781283091398

1283091399

9786613091390

6613091391

9780887550232

0887550231

OCLC:

243614106

Publisher Number:

413006 CaOOCEL (Books Online)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license

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Access restricted to LAC onsite clients. Online access with authorization.