Motherlove in shades of black : the maternal psyche in the novels of African American women /

"This book examines the mother figure in six works: how the mother negotiates the ragged, hostile landscape of a prohibitive environment to love, protect, and raise her children. Informed by psychological analysis, it reveals the forces that create the unique tensions of the African American mo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Pillow, Gloria Thomas
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2010]
Subjects:	American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism. American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism. African American mothers in literature. Love, Maternal, in literature. Mother and child in literature. African American mothers > Psychology.

Table of Contents:

Foreword by Geneva Smitherman
Introduction
Linda Brent: through a glass, darkly
Sappho Clark: double exposure
Irene Redfield: smoke and mirrors
Maud Martha: gray, lined in silver
Celie: emergent light
Sethe: beyond the pale.