The Poetics of Matrilineage: Mothers and Daughters in the Poetry of African American Women, 1965-1985

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Notes on Contributors xi
5. Introduction 1
6. The Problems of Reading: Mother-Daughter Relationships and Indian Postcoloniality 20
7. A Continuum of Pain: A Woman's Legacy in Alice Walker's 38
8. "I was cryin', all the people were cryin', my mother was cryin'": Aboriginality and Maternity in Sally Morgan's 57
9. "My mother is here": Buchi Emecheta's Love Child 74
10. (Re)claiming the Race of the Mothen Cherríe Moraga's 95
11. The Poetics of Matrilineage: Mothers and Daughters in the Poetry of African American Women, 1965-1985 117
12. The Mother as Other: Orientalism in Maxine Hong Kingston's 132
13. Love and Conflict: Mexican American Women Writers as Daughters 153
14. Mother-Daughter Relationships as Epistemological Structures: Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead and Storyteller 172
15. Disrupted Motherlines: Mothers and Daughters in a Genderized, Sexualized, and Racialized World 188
16. Voice, Mind, Self: Mother-Daughter Relationships in Amy Tan's 208
17. To Make Herself: Mother-Daughter Conflicts in Toni Morrison's 228
18. Index 245