Maternal Body and Voice in Toni Morrison, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Lee Smith

Adrienne Rich African American Barbara Christian Beloved blood Bluest Eye Bobbie Ann Mason body and voice breast breast-feeding Burlage Cantrell characters child childbirth Christie Christie's Cixous Claudia connections culture daughter dead babies death depicts diary Dory Eva's Fair and Tender father Feather Crowns female body female experience feminist fiction gives birth Hélène Cixous infant Irigaray Ivy’s Jane's Kristeva language Lee Smith letters Lila Lila's lives Luce Irigaray MacTeer male marriage mastectomy maternal body maternal experience maternal voice McMillen memory metaphor milk moth mother mother's body motherhood mountain myth narrative novel nursing Oral History past patriarchal Pauline Pecola pregnancy Pricey Jane quintuplets realities Red Emmy rendering reveal roles Sally Sam's Saving Grace sense Sethe Sethe's sexual silence Silvaney sister slave southern women Spence stories Sula symbolic Tender Ladies ternal tion Toni Morrison Vietnam woman womb words writing