"Children aren’t everything": Maternal Ambivalences in Nella Larsen’s Fiction

Focusing on the portrayal of motherhood in black women’s speculative fiction, this essay discusses Jewelle Gomez’s short story “Louisiana 1850“ (1991) and explores how Gomez establishes an egalitarian interracial maternal relationship between a white woman and a slave child. I will demonstrat...

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Main Author: Marie-Luise Löffler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Regensburg: Current objectives in postgraduate American studies c/o Universität Regensburg/Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 2012-03-01
Series:Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies
Online Access:https://copas.uni-regensburg.de/index.php/copas/article/view/103
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