Mothers, Mobility, Narrative - Maternality in Us Literature

Shows how US literary representations of mothering across racial, ethnic, and LGBTQ communities challenge ideological prescriptions about motherhood and maternal love.

About the author

Mary Jo Bona is Distinguished SUNY Professor in the Department of Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University. Among her many books, she is the author of By the Breath of Their Mouths: Narratives of Resistance in Italian America and coeditor, with Irma Maini, of Multiethnic Literature and Canon Debates, also by SUNY Press.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Jo Bona, Bona Mary Jo
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.04.2025
• EAN: 9798855802009
• ISBN: 9798855802009
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: SUNY series in Multiethnic Literatures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literature: history & criticism, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: general, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Literature: history and criticism, Relating to Latin / Hispanic American people, Black & Asian Studies, Hispanic & Latino Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic & Latino, Relating to African American / Black American people