motherhood in contemporary women's literatures
Edición de la obra Textual mothers / maternal texts
| Autor | Elizabeth Podnieks, Andrea O'Reilly |
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| Editorial | Wilfred Laurier University Press |
| Fecha de publicación | 2010 |
| Lugar | Waterloo, Ont |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 387 |
| Formato | [electronic resource] : |
| ISBN-13 | 9781554582921, 9781554581801, 9781554582099 |
| ISBN-10 | 155458292X, 1554582091 |
| OCLC |
| 649833629, 429726099 |
| Número de Cutter | P742t |
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Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts focuses on mothers as subjects and as writers who produce auto/biography, fiction, and poetry about maternity. International contributors examine the mother without child, with child, and in her multiple identities as grandmother, mother, and daughter. The collection examines how authors use textual spaces to accept, negotiate, resist, or challenge traditional conceptions of mothering and maternal roles, and how these texts offer alternative practices and visions for mothers. Further, it illuminates how textual representations both reflect and help to define o.