Southern Mothers Fact and Fictions in Southern Women's Writing |
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| Editor:
| Warren, Nagueyalti
Wolff, Sally |
| Foreword by:
| Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth |
| Series title: | Southern Literary Studies |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8071-2508-3 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1999 |
| Publisher: | LSU Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $22.95 |
Book Description:
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Southern Mothers, a collection of critical essays by prominent southern literary scholars, examines the significance of motherhood in southern fiction. The belle, the mammy, religion, and racism are several of the distinctive threads with which southern women writers have woven the fabric of their stories. Bringing southern motherhood into focus -- with all its peculiarities of attitude and tradition -- the essays speak to both the established and the unconventional modes of...
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Southern Mothers, a collection of critical essays by prominent southern literary scholars, examines the significance of motherhood in southern fiction. The belle, the mammy, religion, and racism are several of the distinctive threads with which southern women writers have woven the fabric of their stories. Bringing southern motherhood into focus -- with all its peculiarities of attitude and tradition -- the essays speak to both the established and the unconventional modes of motherhood that are typical in southern writing and probe the extent to which southern women writers have rejected or embraced, supported or challenged the individual, social, and cultural understanding and institution of motherhood.