Southern mothers
Subtitle: fact and fictions in Southern women's writing
By: edited by Nagueyalti Warren and Sally Wolff ; with a foreword by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese.
Contributors: Warren, Nagueyalti, 1947-; Wolff, Sally.
Series: Southern literary studies
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
Subjects: American fiction -- Southern States -- History and criticism.; Mothers in literature.; American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Women -- Southern States -- Intellectual life.; Women and literature -- Southern States.; Mothers and daughters in literature.; Motherhood in literature.; Southern States -- In literature.
Description: "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 both to 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.