Abortion, choice, and contemporary fiction : the armageddon of the maternal instinct / Judith Wilt.
By: Wilt, Judith
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TextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1990Description: xiii, 183 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 0226901580 (alk. paper); 9780226901589 (alkpaper)Subject(s): Irving, John, 1942- -- Criticism and interpretation | Barth, John -- Criticism and interpretation | Walker, Alice, 1944- -- Criticism and interpretation | Morrison, Toni -- Criticism and interpretation | Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965 -- Criticism and interpretation | Atwood, Margaret, 1939- -- Criticism and interpretation | Didion, Joan -- Criticism and interpretation | American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Abortion in literature | Birth control in literature | Motherhood in literature | Mother and child in literature | Mothers in literature | Women in literature | English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Women and literature -- English-speaking countriesGenre/Form: Criticism, interpretation, etc.DDC classification: 813/.509353 LOC classification: PS374.A24 | W55 1990
Contents:
Introduction: The wreck, and the story of the wreck -- Paradigms for the plot of maternal choice: Novels by John Barth and Margaret Drabble -- "We are not dying": Abortion and recovery in four novels by women -- Abortion and the fears of the fathers: Five male writers -- Black maternity: "A Need for someone to want the black baby to live."
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-179) and index.
Introduction: The wreck, and the story of the wreck -- Paradigms for the plot of maternal choice: Novels by John Barth and Margaret Drabble -- "We are not dying": Abortion and recovery in four novels by women -- Abortion and the fears of the fathers: Five male writers -- Black maternity: "A Need for someone to want the black baby to live."
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