| Southern Mothers: Fact and Fictions in Southern Women's Writing Contributor(s): Warren, Nagueyalti (Editor), Wolff, Sally (Editor), Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0807125083 ISBN-13: 9780807125083 Publisher: LSU Press OUR PRICE: $21.80 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 1999 Annotation: 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 to both 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | Women Authors - Literary Criticism | Feminist |
| Dewey: 813.009 |
| LCCN: 99016973 |
| Series: Southern Literary Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 5.5" W x 8.42" (0.74 lbs) 232 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - South - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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 to both 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. |