Southern Mothers, a collection of critical essays by prominent southern literary scholars, examines the significance of motherhood in southern fiction. The belle, the mammy, religion, and racism are several of the distinctive threads with which southern women writers have woven the fabric of their stories. Bringing southern motherhood into focus—with all its peculiarities of attitude and tradition—the essays speak to both the established and the unconventional modes of motherhood that are typical in southern writing and probe the extent to which southern women writers have rejected or embraced, supported or challenged the individual, social, and cultural understanding and institution of motherhood.
Nagueyalti Warren is associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Emory University, where she teaches literature. She is the author of Lodestar and Other Night Lights, a collection of poetry. Sally Wolff is associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Emory University, where she also teaches English. She is the author of Talking About William Faulkner: Interviews with Jimmy Faulkner and Others.
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