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Peay, Cassandra M.

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Challenges to Western Constructs of Motherhood in Novels by Danticat, Erdrich, and Tan.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Challenges to Western Constructs of Motherhood in Novels by Danticat, Erdrich, and Tan./
Author:	Peay, Cassandra M.
Description:	222 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-11(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International73-11A(E).
Subject:	Modern literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3516065
ISBN:	9781267488886

Challenges to Western Constructs of Motherhood in Novels by Danticat, Erdrich, and Tan.
Peay, Cassandra M.

Challenges to Western Constructs of Motherhood in Novels by Danticat, Erdrich, and Tan. - 222 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-11(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2012.

This dissertation examines how mothers, motherhood, and mothering are presented in the contemporary American fiction of authors Edwidge Danticat, Louise Erdrich, and Amy Tan. In Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), Erdrich's Love Medicine56 (1993), and Tan's The Bonesetter's Daughter (2001), I explicate types of isolation mothers face in each novel, the way the authors deal with D.W. Winnicott's definition of the "good enough mother," (which I argue that these authors redefine mothers as the good-but-flawed mother) and, finally, the way the authors challenge certain social customs that reinforce biological mother as the best mother. In each case the authors provide characters with opportunities to encounter many of challenges with which women who become mothers have to contend. Some of the factors that help challenge societal norms in this study stem from concepts like bicultural bind, biology as a determining factor, and Native American Indian (NAI) studies use of gender complementarity as a way to understand gender relations in the Ojibwe tribe.

ISBN: 9781267488886Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122750
Modern literature.

Challenges to Western Constructs of Motherhood in Novels by Danticat, Erdrich, and Tan.
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520 $a This dissertation examines how mothers, motherhood, and mothering are presented in the contemporary American fiction of authors Edwidge Danticat, Louise Erdrich, and Amy Tan. In Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), Erdrich's Love Medicine56 (1993), and Tan's The Bonesetter's Daughter (2001), I explicate types of isolation mothers face in each novel, the way the authors deal with D.W. Winnicott's definition of the "good enough mother," (which I argue that these authors redefine mothers as the good-but-flawed mother) and, finally, the way the authors challenge certain social customs that reinforce biological mother as the best mother. In each case the authors provide characters with opportunities to encounter many of challenges with which women who become mothers have to contend. Some of the factors that help challenge societal norms in this study stem from concepts like bicultural bind, biology as a determining factor, and Native American Indian (NAI) studies use of gender complementarity as a way to understand gender relations in the Ojibwe tribe.
520 $a It is my contention that these authors illustrate the difficulties mothers have to face in a society that, to a great extent, still believes that the domestic sphere is feminine and also, a society still grounded in the expectation that child rearing and household chores will be fulfilled by (and be fulfilling for) mothers. I maintain that the concept of the ideal mother and the cultural expectations of her is a longstanding tradition in many cultures, but I focus my research on Western society, and I couch my argument within third-wave feminism which contends that all mothers and types of mothering must be integrated into the general discussion of motherhood. This is an expansion upon first- and second-wave feminist thought that concerned itself with white, middle-class mothers who wanted a more powerful political and economic voice. I assert that these authors expand the milieu of what mothers are, what they can do, and who they can be.
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