"Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts" focuses on mothers as subjects
and as writers who produce auto/biography, fiction, and poetry
about maternity. International contributors examine the mother
without child, with child, and in her multiple identities as
grandmother, mother, and daughter.
The collection examines how authors use textual spaces to
accept, negotiate, resist, or challenge traditional conceptions of
mothering and maternal roles, and how these texts offer alternative
practices and visions for mothers. Further, it illuminates how
textual representations both reflect and help to define or
(re)shape the realities of women and families by examining how
mothering and being a mother are political, personal, and creative
narratives unfolding within both the pages of a book and the spaces
of a life. The range of chapters maps a shift from the
daughter-centric stories that have dominated the maternal tradition
to the matrilineal and matrifocal perspectives that have emerged
over the last few decades as the mother's voice moved from silence
to speech.
Contributors make aesthetic, cultural, and political claims and
critiques about mothering and motherhood, illuminating in new and
diverse ways how authors and the protagonists of the texts "read"
their own maternal identities as well as the maternal scripts of
their families, cultures, and nations in their quest for
self-knowledge, agency, and artistic expression.
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