| Description |
x, 247 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-235) and index. |
| Contents |
Love and language -- Daughter-writing and the search for recognition : Vivian Gornick's Fierce attachments : a memoir, Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina, and Susannah Moore's My old sweetheart -- Wedge-shaped core of darkness : representing the mother : Virginia Woolf's To the lighthouse -- Mother-writing and the narrative of maternal subjectivity : Mary Gordon's Men and angels and Toni Morrison's Beloved -- Shapes of maternal desire : Liza Nelson's Playing Botticelli -- Riding the flying mare and being her : complementary identification and lesbian desire : poetry by Merle Woo, Thérèse Murdza, Judy Grahn, Marilyn Hacker, Amy Edgington, Pat Parker, Lori Falukner, and Janice Gould -- Drive from the mother's blood : lesbian relationship : Audre Lorde's Zami : a new spelling of my name -- Readerly desire and the transference relationship : Joan Gould's Spirals : a woman's journey through family life |
| Subject |
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Psychoanalysis and literature -- United States.
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Interpersonal relations in literature.
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Mothers and daughters in literature.
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Female friendship in literature.
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Psychology in literature.
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Lesbians in literature.
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Sisters in literature.
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Women in literature.
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| ISBN |
0813532744 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0813532736 (alk. paper) |
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0813532744 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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