"There is no other study that I know of which considers
mother-daughter relationships in the literatures of such diverse
non-European cultures." --Violet H. Bryan, Associate Professor of
English, Xavier University of Louisiana
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 African,
African American, Asian American, Mexican American, Native
American, Indian, and Australian Aboriginal women writers.
Prominent among the writers considered here are Toni Morrison,
Alice Walker, Maxine Hong Kingston, Cherrie Moraga, Leslie Marmon
Silko, and Amy Tan. Elizabeth Brown-Guillory and the other
essayists examine the myths and reality surrounding the
mother-daughter relationship in these writers' works. They show how
women writers of color often portray the mother-daughter dyad as a
love/hate relationship, in which the mother painstakingly tries to
convey knowledge of how to survive in a racist, sexist, and
classist world while the daughter rejects her mother's experiences
as invalid in changing social times.
This book represents a further opening of the literary canon to
twentieth-century women of color. Like the writings it surveys, it
celebrates the joys of breaking silence and moving toward
reconciliation and growth.
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