Publication

2010 - Wilfred Laurier University Press, Waterloo, Ont, Ontario

Language

English

Word Count

96,750 words, Guess

Page Count

387 pages

Physical Format

[electronic resource] :

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC820.9/35252
  • LCCPR9192.6.M64 T45 2010eb

Description

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.

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Other Editions

  • Textual mothers / maternal texts: motherhood in contemporary women's literatures[electronic resource] :Wilfred Laurier University Press2010-01-01

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