Title: Textual mothers / maternal texts
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.
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, Motherhood, Mères dans la littérature, Maternité dans la littérature, Mère et enfant dans la littérature, Écrits de femmes canadiens, Écrits de femmes américains, Littérature canadienne, Littérature américaine
Time periods: 20e sie  cle, 20th century