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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 or (re)shape the realities of women and families by examining how mothering and being a mother are political, personal, and creative narratives unfolding within both the pages of a book and the spaces of a life. The range of chapters maps a shift from the daughter-centric stories that have dominated the maternal tradition to the matrilineal and matrifocal perspectives that have emerged over the last few decades as the mother’s voice moved from silence to speech.

Contributors make aesthetic, cultural, and political claims and critiques about mothering and motherhood, illuminating in new and diverse ways how authors and the protagonists of the texts “read” their own maternal identities as well as the maternal scripts of their families, cultures, and nations in their quest for self-knowledge, agency, and artistic expression.

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Publié par	Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Date de parution	07 avril 2011
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781554587650
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Textual Mothers / Maternal Texts
Textual Mothers / Maternal Texts Motherhood in Contemporary Women s Literatures
ELIZABETH PODNIEKS AND ANDREA O REILLY, EDITORS
This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, through the Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Wilfrid Laurier University Press acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program for our publishing activities.
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Textual mothers / maternal texts : motherhood in contemporary women s literatures / Elizabeth Podnieks and Andrea O Reilly, editors.
Includes bibliographical references and index. Also available in electronic formats. ISBN 978-1-55458-180-1
1. Mothers in literature. 2. Motherhood in literature. 3. Mother and child in literature. 4. Canadian literature-Women authors-History and criticism. 5. American literature-Women authors-History and criticism. 6. Canadian literature-20th century-History and criticism. 7. American literature-20th century-History and criticism. I. Podnieks, Elizabeth II. O Reilly, Andrea, 1961-
PS 8089.5. W 6 T 45 2010 820.9 35252 C 2009-904029-8
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Textual mothers / maternal texts [electronic resource] : motherhood in contemporary women s literatures / Elizabeth Podnieks and Andrea O Reilly, editors.
Includes bibliographical references and index. Electronic monograph available in PDF , XML , and ePub formats. Also available in printed format. ISBN 978-1-55458-209-9
1. Mothers in literature. 2. Motherhood in literature. 3. Mother and child in literature. 4. Canadian literature-Women authors-History and criticism. 5. American literature-Women authors-History and criticism. 6. Canadian literature-20th century-History and criticism. 7. American literature-20th century-History and criticism. I. Podnieks, Elizabeth II. O Reilly, Andrea, 1961-
PS 8089.5. W 6 T 45 2010a 820.9 35252
2010 Wilfrid Laurier University Press Waterloo, Ontario, Canada www.wlupress.wlu.ca
Cover image: Mother and Child , a painting by F. G. Davis (fgdavis.co.uk). Cover design by Blakely Words+Pictures. Text design by Martyn Schmoll
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Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Maternal Literatures in Text and Tradition: Daughter-Centric, Matrilineal, and Matrifocal Perspectives
ELIZABETH PODNIEKS AND ANDREA O REILLY
Part 1: Maternal Absence
1. Aberrant, Absent, Alienated: Reading the Maternal in Jane Urquhart s First Two Novels, The Whirlpool and Changing Heaven
MYRL COULTER
2. Motherless Daughters: The Absent Mothers in Margaret Atwood
NANCY PELED
3. Writing about Abusive Mothers: Ethics and Auto/biography
KATE DOUGLAS
4. Red Mother : The Missing Mother Plot as Double Mystery in Louise Erdrich s Fiction
SHEILA HASSELL HUGHES
5. This was her punishment : Jew, Whore, Mother in the Fiction of Adele Wiseman and Lilian Nattel
RUTH PANOFSKY
Part 2: Maternal Ambivalence
6. Eden Robinson s Dogs in Winter : Parodic Extremes of Mothering
NATHALIE FOY
7. Subverting the Saintly Mother: The Novels of Gabrielle Poulin
KATHLEEN KELLETT-BETSOS
8. Opaque with confusion and shame : Maternal Ambivalence in Rita Dove s Poetry
ELIZABETH BEAULIEU
9. Maternal Blitz: Harriet Lovatt as Postpartum Sufferer in Doris Lessing s The Fifth Child
DENYS LANDRY
10. We Need to Talk about Gender: Mothering and Masculinity in Lionel Shriver s We Need to Talk about Kevin
EMILY JEREMIAH
Part 3: Maternal Agency
11. Narrating Maternal Subjectivity: Memoirs from Motherhood
JOANNE S. FRYE
12. The Motherhood Memoir and the New Momism : Biting the Hand That Feeds You
ANDREA O REILLY
13. I had to make a future, willful, voluble, lascivious : Minnie Bruce Pratt s Disruptive Lesbian Maternal Narratives
SUSAN DRIVER
14. Lesbian Mothering in Contemporary French Literature
GILL RYE
15. But She s a Mom! Sex, Motherhood, and the Poetry of Sharon Olds
RITA JONES
16. (Grand)mothering Children of the Apocalypse : A Post-postmodern Ecopoetic Reading of Margaret Laurence s The Diviners
DI BRANDT
Part 4: Maternal Communication
17. Colonialism s Impact on Mothering: Jamaica Kincaid s Rendering of the Mother-Daughter Split in Annie John
NICOLE WILLEY
18. Mother to Daughter: Muted Maternal Feminism in the Fiction of Sandra Cisneros
RITA BODE
19. Cracking (Mother) India
TANJA STAMPFL
20. Asian American Mothering in the Absence of Talk Story: Obasan and Chorus of Mushrooms
ANNE-MARIE LEE-LOY
21. Baby, Boo-Boo, and Bobs: The Matrilineal Auto/biographies of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, Frances Scott Fitzgerald, and Eleanor Lanahan
ELIZABETH PODNIEKS
22. Revelations and Representations: Birth Stories and Motherhood on the Internet
KIM HENSLEY OWENS
Coda: Stories to Live By : Maternal Literatures and Motherhood Studies
ANDREA O REILLY
Notes on the Contributors
Index
Acknowledgements
Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts is the product of many people whose efforts supporting and producing the collection we wish to acknowledge here. To the more than one hundred scholars who submitted proposals in response to our call for papers, and who thus underscored the vital timeliness of this work on motherhood and literatures, we express both our gratitude for their interest and our apologies that we could not include them all. To our twenty contributors, we extend our congratulations for their compelling scholarship and our appreciation for their eager and patient willingness to work with us and with our Laurier Press editors in bringing their chapters to final form.
We are indebted to Jacqueline Larson, who as acquisitions editor for the Press first put the proposed collection under contract, and to her successor, Lisa Quinn, for her continuing commitment to the project. Lisa s unfailing support and encouragement throughout the various stages has been invaluable. We recognize the enormous amount of time offered by the two readers for the Press, and thank them for their insights and suggestions, which were most helpful to us as we made our revisions. We value the efforts of Rob Kohlmeier, managing editor; Marcia Gallego, copy editor; and Leslie Macredie, website and marketing coordinator, who came aboard in the latter stages of production and who worked so efficiently and creatively. We are, as well, most grateful for the financial support provided by the Aid to Scholarly Publications Program (ASPP).
Podnieks would like to thank Ryerson University for its ongoing support of her research, specifically through two grants: a Ryerson SSHRC Institutional Grant and a Ryerson Faculty of Arts SRC Fund Research Grant, which afforded her the time and resources to research and write her chapter as well as to co-author the introduction and to co-edit the entire collection. Her work has been facilitated by conscientious and dedicated research assistants Christopher Richardson and Carolyn Winters. Podnieks owes everything to her family: her brother and sister-in-law Andrew and Mary-Jane Podnieks; her aunt, Mairi Macdonald; and her husband, Ian Smith, for being everywhere every step of the way. This collection would likely not have occurred to her had it not been for three folks: her own mother, Elizabeth Podnieks, who shows her every day what it means to mother; and her own two children, Zachary Smith and Emily Smith, who inspire all things maternal.
O Reilly would like to thank the Social Science Research Council of Canada and its continued support of her research though various grants, most notably the Standard Research Grant and the International Opportunities Fund grant. Special thanks are due to my brilliant research assistants Sarah Trimble, Melissa Nurse, Ayla Lefkowich, and to my remarkable proofreader, Randy Chase. All scholars should be so blessed. Thank you to the members of the Association for Research on Mothering: my thinking on mothering, as always, was enriched and sustained by this splendid community of scholars. A particular word of thanks to my early mentors in women s literature: Elizabeth Sabiston, Eleanor Hine, Leslie Sanders, Rusty Shteir, and Barbara Godard: thank you for causing me to fall in love with women s literature and saving me from a degree in economics. Special thanks to Ren e Knapp at ARM, who comforts and commiserates when I need these the most. And as always, my deepest gratitude to my family, in particular my mother, Jean O Reilly; my sister Jennifer O Reilly; my children, Jesse, Erin, and Casey O Reilly-Conlin; and my partner, Terry Conlin. They continue to inspire and sustain my mat