Maternal conditions
Subtitle: reading Kingsolver, Castillo, Erdrich, and Ozeki
By: Melissa A. Schoeffel.
Series: American University studies XXIV: American literature -- v. 78
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9781433101472
Subjects: Kingsolver, Barbara -- Criticism and interpretation; Castillo, Ana -- Criticism and interpretation; Erdrich, Louise -- Criticism and interpretation; Ozeki, Ruth L. -- Criticism and interpretation; Motherhood in literature; American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Mothers in literature; Multiculturalism in literature; Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Description: "Maternal Conditions analyzes the depiction of motherhood in the works of Barbara Kingsolver, Ana Castillo, Louise Erdrich, and Ruth Ozeki. The book examines the politics underlying and engendered by ethnically diverse representations of the maternal, interrogating the dominant cultural understanding of the good mother. This analysis then moves to a study of how the subjective experience of mothers is portrayed in these writings, ending with an exploration of the relationship between motherhood and ethics."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.