Women of Color : : Mother-Daughter Relationships in 20th-Century Literature / / ed. by Elizabeth Brown-Guillory.

Interest in the mother-daughter relationship has never been greater, yet there are few books specifically devoted to the relationships between daughters and mothers of color. To fill that gap, this collection of original essays explores the mother-daughter relationship as it appears in the works of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (263 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  • The Problems of Reading: Mother-Daughter Relationships and Indian Postcoloniality
  • A Continuum of Pain: A Woman's Legacy in Alice Walker's
  • "I was cryin', all the people were cryin', my mother was cryin'": Aboriginality and Maternity in Sally Morgan's
  • "My mother is here": Buchi Emecheta's Love Child
  • (Re)claiming the Race of the Mothen Cherríe Moraga's
  • The Poetics of Matrilineage: Mothers and Daughters in the Poetry of African American Women, 1965-1985
  • The Mother as Other: Orientalism in Maxine Hong Kingston's
  • Love and Conflict: Mexican American Women Writers as Daughters
  • Mother-Daughter Relationships as Epistemological Structures: Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead and Storyteller
  • Disrupted Motherlines: Mothers and Daughters in a Genderized, Sexualized, and Racialized World
  • Voice, Mind, Self: Mother-Daughter Relationships in Amy Tan's
  • To Make Herself: Mother-Daughter Conflicts in Toni Morrison's
  • Index