Información General

• Autores: Andrea O'Reilly (coord.), Silvia Caporale Bizzini (coord.)
• Editores: Susquehanna University Press
• Año de publicación: 2009
• País: Estados Unidos
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 978-1-57591-129-8
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Resumen

• From the "Personal to the Political" seeks to analyze the autobiographical perspective of mothering and motherhood not purely as their inner, emotional and private narratives. The collection aims at evidentiating how autobiographical writing gives voice to the historically determined experience of mothering and makes visible the importance of mothers as resilient and political agents. The volume is divided into two sections. The first focuses on what may be termed 'autobiographical theory'. The contributors in this section use their life stories to theorize upon a social maternal perspective such as that as single mothers, mothers of children with disabilities, mothers of older children, and mothers of bi-racial children. The focus of the second section is on autobiographical narratives and includes readings of memoirs, slave narratives, poetry, and fiction. The essays in this volume position autobiography, in both theory and fiction, as a profoundly cultural and political text that makes social change possible

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Listado de artículos

• • Part I. Maternal stories : from experience to praxis

    • Writing as a practice of resistance: motherhood, identity, and representation

      Silvia Caporale Bizzini

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      págs. 37-49

      

    • Narrating the (lone) maternal subject: the validation stories of "ordinary women in extraordinary circumstances"

      Lesley Patterson

      págs. 50-70

      

    • White mothers of chinese daughters: real mothers of real children

      Sonya Corbin Dwyer, Lynn Gidluck

      págs. 71-85

      

    • "Your shopping cart is empty": social texts of single motherhood and the discomforts of discourse

      Ann Elizabeth Willey

      págs. 86-100

      

    • The paradox of separation and dependency: a mother's story

      Jenny Jones

      págs. 101-113

      

    • "My mum's a dyke": maternal subjectivities in midlife transition from a heterosexual to a lesbian identity

      Susan Kentlyn

      págs. 114-123

      

    • The maternal autobiography in performance

      Beth Osnes

      págs. 124-139

      

  • Part II. Maternal texts : from narrative to theory

    • Maternal fetters: motherhood and slavehood in Harriet Jacob's "Incidents in the life of a slave girl"

      Mary McCartin Wearn

      págs. 143-155

      

    • The dialogics of the sexual-maternal: multiple births in Gilman and Le Sueur

      Carolina Núñez Puente

      págs. 156-169

      

    • The mother in mourning as the subject of autobiography in Rosamond Lehmann's "The swan in the evening : fragments of an inner life"

      Nóra Séllei

      págs. 170-182

      

    • Implicated in a color change: darkening the picture of Jane Lazarre's maternal transracial memoir

      Martha Satz

      págs. 183-194

      

    • Coalescence in evolution: queer familia in Cherríe Moraga's "Waiting in the wings"

      R. Joyce Z.L. Garay

      págs. 195-209

      

    • Babies and boundaries: mother-speaking in Rachel Cusk's "A life's work"

      Celia Shiffer

      págs. 210-224

      

    • Maternal subjectivity: a kristevan reading of Anne Enright's memoir, "Making babies : strumbling into motherhood"

      Heather Ingman

      págs. 225-237

      

    • The motherhood memoir and the "new momism": biting the hand that feeds you

      Andrea O'Reilly

      págs. 238-248