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Mother and motherland in Jamaica Kincaid
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ISBN: 3631545118 Year: 2005 Publisher: Peter Lang,

Women of Color
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ISBN: 0292708467 0292708475 9780292708464 9780292708471 0292767617 Year: 1996 Publisher: University of Texas Press

After the fall : the Demeter-Persephone myth in Wharton, Cather, and Glasgow
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ISBN: 0271006498 9780271006499 0271072563 Year: 1989 Publisher: University Park London Pennsylvania State University Press

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A continuation of Josephine Donovan's exploration of American women's literary traditions, begun with New England Local Color Literature: A Women's Tradition, which treats the nineteenth-century realists, this work analyzes the writing of major women writers of the early twentieth century—Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and Ellen Glasgow.The author sees the Demeter-Persephone myth as central to these writers' thematics, but interprets the myth in terms of the historical transitions taking place in turn-of-the-century America. Donovan focuses on the changing relationship between mothers and daughters—in particular upon the ";new women's"; rebellion against the traditional women's culture of their nineteenth-century mothers (both literary and literal). An introductory chapter traces the male-supremacist ideologies that formed the intellectual climate in which these women wrote.Reorienting Wharton, Cather, and Glasgow within women's literary traditions produces major reinterpretations of their works, including such masterpieces as Ethan Frome, Summer, My Antonia, Barren Ground, and others.

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Thematology --- Glasgow, Ellen --- Cather, Willa --- Wharton, Edith --- Demeter (Greek deity) in literature --- Femme (Théologie chrétienne) dans la littérature --- Femmes dans la littérature --- Femmes dans la poésie --- Femmes dans le théâtre --- Moeders en dochters in de literatuur --- Mothers and daughters in literature --- Myth in literature --- Mythe dans la littérature --- Mythe in de literatuur --- Mères et filles dans la littérature --- Persephone (Greek deity) in literature --- Vrouw (Christelijke theologie) in de literatuur --- Vrouwen in de literatuur --- Vrouwen in de poëzie --- Vrouwen in het toneel --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in literature --- Women in poetry --- American fiction --- History and criticism --- Cather, Willa, --- Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson, --- Wharton, Edith, --- Olivieri, David, --- Wharton, Edith Newbold Jones, --- Уортон, Эдит, --- Gouorton, Intith, --- Glasgow, Ellen, --- Glazgou, Ėllen --- Glāzgova, E. --- Glāzgova, Elena --- Katėr, Villa, --- Cather, Willa Sibert, --- Cather, Wilella, --- Catherová, Willa, --- קאתר, וילה, --- Characters --- Women. --- 20th century --- Wharton, Edith Newbold --- Women --- Cather, Willa Sibert --- Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson --- Glazgou, Ėllen, --- Glāzgova, Elena, --- Jones, Edith Newbold --- Kāz̲ar, Vīlā, --- Kāz̲ir, Vīlā, --- کاذر، ويلا --- Mothers and daughters in literature. --- Myth in literature. --- Women in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Demeter --- Persephone --- In literature. --- Characters.

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