Women of Color: Mother-Daughter Relationships in 20th-Century Literature

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Elizabeth Brown-Guillory
University of Texas Press, Jun 28, 2010 - Literary Criticism - 263 pages

Interest in the mother-daughter relationship has never been greater, yet there are few books specifically devoted to the relationships between daughters and mothers of color. To fill that gap, this collection of original essays explores the mother-daughter relationship as it appears in the works of African, African American, Asian American, Mexican American, Native American, Indian, and Australian Aboriginal women writers.

Prominent among the writers considered here are Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Maxine Hong Kingston, Cherrie Moraga, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Amy Tan. Elizabeth Brown-Guillory and the other essayists examine the myths and reality surrounding the mother-daughter relationship in these writers' works. They show how women writers of color often portray the mother-daughter dyad as a love/hate relationship, in which the mother painstakingly tries to convey knowledge of how to survive in a racist, sexist, and classist world while the daughter rejects her mother's experiences as invalid in changing social times.

This book represents a further opening of the literary canon to twentieth-century women of color. Like the writings it surveys, it celebrates the joys of breaking silence and moving toward reconciliation and growth.

 

Selected pages

Contents

Acknowledgments
Mexican American Women Writers
MotherDaughter Relationships
A Womans Legacy in Alice Walkers
Mothers andDaughters in aGenderized Sexualized andRacialized World Elizabeth BrownGuillory
MotherDaughter Conflicts in Toni Morrisons
Index
Copyright

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About the author (2010)

Elizabeth Brown-Guillory is a playwright and Associate Professor of English at the University of Houston.

Bibliographic information

TitleWomen of Color: Mother-Daughter Relationships in 20th-Century Literature
EditorElizabeth Brown-Guillory
PublisherUniversity of Texas Press, 2010
ISBN0292791690, 9780292791695
Length263 pages
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Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / Women Authors
  
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