Encountering maternal silence: writing strategies for negotiating margins of mother/ing in contemporary Canadian prairie women's poetry

Contemporary Canadian prairie women poets write about the mother figure to counter maternal suppression and the homogenization of maternal representations in literature. Critics, like Marianne Hirsch and Andrea O’Reilly, insist that mothers tell their own stories, yet many mothers are unable to. Dau...

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Main Author:	Hiebert, Luann E.
Other Authors:	Calder, Alison (English, Film, and Theatre)
Published:	2016
Subjects:	Elegiac poetry Motherhood Maternity poetry Canadian poetry Women authors Poetics Maternal subjectivity Maternal theory Feminist poetry Prairie poetry Pregnancy Childbirth Mourning mother loss Mourning child loss Maternal lineage Mother poets Prairie women's poetry 21st century poetry Ariel Gordon Barbara Langhorst Canadian literature (English) Charlene Diehl-Jones Claire Harris Cultural transmission Cultural violence Culture and motherhood Domestic violence Elegy Hospitality and responsibility Jennifer Still Lisa Martin-DeMoor Literary criticism Louise Bernice Halfe Maternal discourse Maternal aesthetics Maternal inheritance Maternal silence Maternal writing Méira Cook Erín Moure Melanie Dennis Unrau Mother myths Postcolonial writing Motherhood studies Motherhood and feminism Prairie women poets Regional literature Rita Bouvier Sally Ito Sarah Klassen Su Croll Subjectivity Writing and motherhood Writing the other
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Encountering maternal silence: writing strategies for negotiating margins of mother/ing in contemporary Canadian prairie women's poetry

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