Maternal Body and Voice in Toni Morrison, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Lee Smith.
| Publisher | Mississippi State University |
| Publication | The Mississippi Quarterly |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0026-637X |
| Issues per Year | 4 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Published | 2004-03-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Reviewee | n/a | Paula Gallant Eckard |
| Author | n/a | Joseph M. Flora |
Maternal Body and Voice in Toni Morrison, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Lee Smith, by Paula Gallant Eckard. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002. xv, 227 pp. $39.95.
COUNTERING A LONG TRADITION OF Southern fiction that highlighted patriarchal experience and pushed maternal experience to the fringe, Paula Gallant Eckard celebrates the bold departures from this mindset in the work of three twentieth-century women who have made the female body and voice central to their work.
Strictly speaking, Toni Morrison is not a Southerner, but she writes about Southern themes...
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