Toni Morrison and the Maternal : from the Bluest Eye to Home / Linda Wagner-Martin.

Author/creator Wagner-Martin, Linda
Format Book
PublicationNew York : Peter Lang, [2014]
Descriptionxi, 211 pages ; 23 cm.
Subjects

SeriesModern American literature: new approaches, 1078-0521 ; vol. 67
Modern American literature (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 67. ^A389256
Contents Preface -- Acknowledgments and Reference Systems -- Introduction: Morrison and the Maternal -- Chapter One: Mothers at Random in The Bluest Eye -- Chapter Two: Sula and the Individuality of Mothering -- Chapter Three: Replacement Mothering in Song of Solomon -- Chapter Four: Tar Baby and Its Multiple Non-mothers -- Chapter Five: Beloved, Beloved, Beloved, Beloved... -- Chapter Six: Jazz and Its Mothers and Non-mothers -- Chapter Seven: Playing in the Dark and the Nobel Acceptance Lecuture -- Chapter Eight: Paradise and its Mothers -- Chapter Nine: Love and Its Absence of Mothers -- Chapter Ten: A Mercy and Abandoning Mothers -- Chapter Eleven: Frank Money, Cee, and the Maternal in Home -- Coda -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
LCCN 2014016406
ISBN9781433124570 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN1433124572 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Standard identifier# 40024292394

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Joyner General Stacks PS3563 .O8749 Z942 2014 ✔ Available Place Hold