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Author_Melissa Schoeffel
Castillo
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Product details
- ISBN 9781433101472
- Weight: 380g
- Dimensions: 1558 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 28 Oct 2008
- Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Maternal Conditions analyzes the depiction of motherhood in the works of Barbara Kingsolver, Ana Castillo, Louise Erdrich, and Ruth Ozeki. The book examines the politics underlying and engendered by ethnically diverse representations of the maternal, interrogating the dominant cultural understanding of the good mother. This analysis then moves to a study of how the subjective experience of mothers is portrayed in these writings, ending with an exploration of the relationship between motherhood and ethics.
The Author: Melissa Schoeffel teaches literature and composition for the Cultures and Communities Program and the English Department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). She is currently involved in UWM’s learning communities initiative, for which she is designing a «living learning community» structured around a course on multicultural America. Her research interests include, in addition to motherhood studies, curricula and pedagogies that promote social justice and enhance diversity in society.
