Title: Abortion, choice, and contemporary fiction : the armageddon of the maternal instinct /
Authors: Wilt, Judith, 1941-
Publisher: University of Chicago Press,
Year: 1990
Subjects: Irving, John, Criticism and interpretation.; Barth, John Criticism and interpretation.; Walker, Alice, Criticism and interpretation.; Morrison, Toni Criticism and interpretation.; Hansberry, Lorraine, Criticism and interpretation.; Atwood, Margaret, Criticism and interpretation.; Didion, Joan Criticism and interpretation.; American fiction History and criticism; Abortion in literature.; Birth control in literature.; Motherhood in literature.; Mother and child in literature.; Mothers in literature; Women in literature; English fiction History and criticism; Women and literature English-speaking countries.
Contents: Introduction: The wreck, and the story of the wreck -- Paradigms for the plot of maternal choice: Novels by John Barth and Margaret Drabble -- "We are not dying": Abortion and recovery in four novels by women -- Abortion and the fears of the fathers: Five male writers -- Black maternity: "A Need for someone to want the black baby to live."