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Maternal Conditions

Reading Kingsolver, Castillo, Erdrich, and Ozeki

by Melissa Schoeffel (Author)
©2008 Monographs X, 174 Pages
Series: American University Studies , Volume 78

Summary

Maternal Conditions analyzes the depiction of motherhood in the works of Barbara Kingsolver, Ana Castillo, Louise Erdrich, and Ruth Ozeki. The book examines the politics underlying and engendered by ethnically diverse representations of the maternal, interrogating the dominant cultural understanding of the good mother. This analysis then moves to a study of how the subjective experience of mothers is portrayed in these writings, ending with an exploration of the relationship between motherhood and ethics.

Details

Pages
X, 174
Year
2008
ISBN (Hardcover)
9781433101472
Language
English
Keywords
Kingsolver, Barbara Roman Mutterschaft (Motiv) Contemporary literature Feminism Motherhood Multiculturalism Literary criticism Women writers
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2008. X, 174 pp.

Biographical notes

Melissa Schoeffel (Author)

The Author: Melissa Schoeffel teaches literature and composition for the Cultures and Communities Program and the English Department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). She is currently involved in UWM’s learning communities initiative, for which she is designing a «living learning community» structured around a course on multicultural America. Her research interests include, in addition to motherhood studies, curricula and pedagogies that promote social justice and enhance diversity in society.

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