Textual mothers / maternal texts
Subtitle: motherhood in contemporary women's literatures
By: Elizabeth Podnieks and Andrea O'Reilly, editors
Publisher: Wilfred Laurier University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Waterloo, Ont
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9781554582921; 9781554581801; 9781554582099
Subjects: Literature; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; LITERARY CRITICISM; Maternite  dans la litte rature; European; E crits de femmes canadiens; Mothers in literature; E crits de femmes ame ricains; History and criticism; American literature; Histoire et critique; Motherhood in literature; Litte rature canadienne; Women authors; Mother and child in literature; Canadian literature; Me  res dans la litte rature; Me  re et enfant dans la litte rature; Litte rature ame ricaine
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Maternal absence; title: Maternal ambivalence; title: Maternal agency; title: Maternal communication.