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(Re)claiming the Race of the Mothen Cherríe Moraga's
Shadow of a Man, Giving Up the Ghost, and Heroes and Saint
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Julia De Foor Jay
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Notes on Contributors xi
- Introduction 1
- The Problems of Reading: Mother-Daughter Relationships and Indian Postcoloniality 20
- A Continuum of Pain: A Woman's Legacy in Alice Walker's 38
- "I was cryin', all the people were cryin', my mother was cryin'": Aboriginality and Maternity in Sally Morgan's 57
- "My mother is here": Buchi Emecheta's Love Child 74
- (Re)claiming the Race of the Mothen Cherríe Moraga's 95
- The Poetics of Matrilineage: Mothers and Daughters in the Poetry of African American Women, 1965-1985 117
- The Mother as Other: Orientalism in Maxine Hong Kingston's 132
- Love and Conflict: Mexican American Women Writers as Daughters 153
- Mother-Daughter Relationships as Epistemological Structures: Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead and Storyteller 172
- Disrupted Motherlines: Mothers and Daughters in a Genderized, Sexualized, and Racialized World 188
- Voice, Mind, Self: Mother-Daughter Relationships in Amy Tan's 208
- To Make Herself: Mother-Daughter Conflicts in Toni Morrison's 228
- Index 245
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Notes on Contributors xi
- Introduction 1
- The Problems of Reading: Mother-Daughter Relationships and Indian Postcoloniality 20
- A Continuum of Pain: A Woman's Legacy in Alice Walker's 38
- "I was cryin', all the people were cryin', my mother was cryin'": Aboriginality and Maternity in Sally Morgan's 57
- "My mother is here": Buchi Emecheta's Love Child 74
- (Re)claiming the Race of the Mothen Cherríe Moraga's 95
- The Poetics of Matrilineage: Mothers and Daughters in the Poetry of African American Women, 1965-1985 117
- The Mother as Other: Orientalism in Maxine Hong Kingston's 132
- Love and Conflict: Mexican American Women Writers as Daughters 153
- Mother-Daughter Relationships as Epistemological Structures: Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead and Storyteller 172
- Disrupted Motherlines: Mothers and Daughters in a Genderized, Sexualized, and Racialized World 188
- Voice, Mind, Self: Mother-Daughter Relationships in Amy Tan's 208
- To Make Herself: Mother-Daughter Conflicts in Toni Morrison's 228
- Index 245
