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<p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Throughout human history, motherhood and maternal experience have been largely defined and written by patriarchal culture. Religion, art, medicine, psychoanalysis, and other bastions of male power have objectified the maternal and have disregarded female subjectivity. As a result, maternal perspectives have been ignored and the mother’s voice silenced. In recent literary texts, however, more substantial attention has been given to motherhood and to the physical, psychological, social, and cultural dynamics affecting maternal experience. In <i>Maternal Body and Voice in Toni Morrison, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Lee Smith</i>, Paula Gallant Eckard examines how maternal experience is depicted in selected novels by three American writers, emphasizing how they focus on the body and the voice of the mother. These novels include: <i>The Bluest Eye</i>, <i>Sula</i>, and <i>Beloved</i> by Morrison; <i>In Country</i>, <i>Spence + Lila</i>, and <i>Feather Crowns</i> by Mason; and <i>Oral History</i>, <i>Fair and Tender Ladies</i>, and <i>Saving Grace</i> by Smith.</p> <p>By employing this focus, these writers lessen the objectification the maternal has received and restore a rich

Author

Paula Gallant Eckard

Publisher

Columbia: University of Missouri Press

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780826264039

Subjects

History, Fiction, Literary Fiction