Focusing on specific texts by Jamaica Kincaid, Maryse Conde, and Paule Marshall, this fascinating study explores the intricate trichotomous relationship between the mother (biological or surrogate), the motherlands Africa and the Caribbean, and the mothercountry represented by England, France, and/or North America. The mother-daughter relationships in the works discussed address the complex, conflicting notions of motherhood that exist within this trichotomy.…
Author: Simone A. James Alexander · Original publisher: University of Missouri Press (Columbia, MO, 2001)
Tier 3 — Partial text + link. No text is hosted on Gary NOI. Read free: https://archive.org/details/motherimageryinn00alex (Internet Archive lending copy — borrowable; IA item ID as recorded in Tranche B2: motherimageryinn00alex; no hosting rights).
