A01=Linda Byrd Cook
Author_Linda Byrd Cook
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Product details
- ISBN 9780786441105
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 13 May 2009
- Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book examines Lee Smith's novel-length fiction and its powerful reflection of her personal search for and journey toward spiritual reconciliation. The protagonists of Smith's novels feel estranged from any sense of feminine sacredness as they struggle for a belief system that offers them hope and validation.
Chapters describe how Smith has retrieved in her fiction a source of transformative power--the power of the sexual, maternal, feminine divine--in hopes of creating a new image of the total, sacred female whose sexuality, creativity, spirituality, and maternity can reside comfortably in the bodies of everyday heroines.
Linda Byrd Cook is a professor of English at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas.
