Wild Mother Dancing: Maternal Narrative in Canadian Literature

by Di Brandt

Overview

Wild Mother Dancing challenges the historical absence of the mother, who, as subject and character, has been repeatedly suppressed and edited out of the literary canon. In her search for sources for telling the new (or old, forbidden story) against a tradition of narrative absence, Brandt turns to Canadian fiction representing a variety of cultural traditions—Margaret Laurence, Daphne Marlatt, Jovette Marchessault, Joy Kogawa, Sky Lee—and a collection of oral interviews about childbirth told by Mennonite women. The results broaden, enrich, and finally recover the motherstory in ways that have revolutionary implications for our institutions and imaginations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780887550232
Publisher:	University of Manitoba Press
Publication date:	09/15/1993
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	197
File size:	297 KB

About the Author

Di Brandt is an internationally acclaimed, award winning poet. She teaches English and creative writing at Brandon University