Title: Southern mothers
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.
Subjects: Mothers in literature, Intellectual life, History and criticism, Motherhood in literature, Women authors, Women and literature, Mothers and daughters in literature, American fiction, In literature, Women, American literature, women authors, American literature, history and criticism, History
Places: Southern States