Elizabeth Brown-Guillory is a playwright and Associate Professor of English at the University of Houston.

"There is no other study that I know of which considers mother-daughter relationships in the literatures of such diverse non-European cultures." - Violet H. Bryan, Associate Professor of English, Xavier University of Louisiana

• AcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction (Elizabeth Brown-Guillory)The Problems of Reading: Mother-Daughter Relationships and Indian Postcoloniality (Radhika Mohanram)A Continuum of Pain: A Woman’s Legacy in Alice Walker’s Possessing the Secret of Joy (Kimberly Joyce Pollock)“I was cryin’, all the people were cryin’, my mother was cryin’”: Aboriginality and Maternity in Sally Morgan’s My Place (Joyce Zonana)“My mother is here”: Buchi Emecheta’s Love Child (Patricia Lee Yongue)(Re)claiming the Race of the Mother: CherrÍe Moraga’s Shadow of a Man, Giving Up the Ghost, and Heroes and Saints (Julia De Foor Jay)The Poetics of Matrilineage: Mothers and Daughters in the Poetry of African American Women, 1965-1985 (Fabian Clements Worshma)The Mother as Other: Orientalism in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior (Sheryl A. Mylan)Love and Conflict: Mexican American Women Writers as Daughters (Maria Gonzalez)Mother-Daughter Relationships as Epistemological Structures: Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead and Storyteller (Charlene Taylor Evans)Disrupted Motherlines: Mothers and Daughters in a Genderized, Sexualized, and Racialized World (Elizabeth Brown-Guillory)Voice, Mind, Self: Mother-Daughter Relationships in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God’s Wife (M. Marie Booth Foster)To Make Herself: Mother-Daughter Conflicts in Toni Morrison’s Sula and Tar Baby (Lucille P. Fultz)Index

Elizabeth Brown-Guillory is a playwright and Associate Professor of English at the University of Houston.

"There is no other study that I know of which considers mother-daughter relationships in the literatures of such diverse non-European cultures." - Violet H. Bryan, Associate Professor of English, Xavier University of Louisiana

• AcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction (Elizabeth Brown-Guillory)The Problems of Reading: Mother-Daughter Relationships and Indian Postcoloniality (Radhika Mohanram)A Continuum of Pain: A Woman’s Legacy in Alice Walker’s Possessing the Secret of Joy (Kimberly Joyce Pollock)“I was cryin’, all the people were cryin’, my mother was cryin’”: Aboriginality and Maternity in Sally Morgan’s My Place (Joyce Zonana)“My mother is here”: Buchi Emecheta’s Love Child (Patricia Lee Yongue)(Re)claiming the Race of the Mother: CherrÍe Moraga’s Shadow of a Man, Giving Up the Ghost, and Heroes and Saints (Julia De Foor Jay)The Poetics of Matrilineage: Mothers and Daughters in the Poetry of African American Women, 1965-1985 (Fabian Clements Worshma)The Mother as Other: Orientalism in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior (Sheryl A. Mylan)Love and Conflict: Mexican American Women Writers as Daughters (Maria Gonzalez)Mother-Daughter Relationships as Epistemological Structures: Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead and Storyteller (Charlene Taylor Evans)Disrupted Motherlines: Mothers and Daughters in a Genderized, Sexualized, and Racialized World (Elizabeth Brown-Guillory)Voice, Mind, Self: Mother-Daughter Relationships in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God’s Wife (M. Marie Booth Foster)To Make Herself: Mother-Daughter Conflicts in Toni Morrison’s Sula and Tar Baby (Lucille P. Fultz)Index

Elizabeth Brown-Guillory is a playwright and Associate Professor of English at the University of Houston.

"There is no other study that I know of which considers mother-daughter relationships in the literatures of such diverse non-European cultures." - Violet H. Bryan, Associate Professor of English, Xavier University of Louisiana

• AcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction (Elizabeth Brown-Guillory)The Problems of Reading: Mother-Daughter Relationships and Indian Postcoloniality (Radhika Mohanram)A Continuum of Pain: A Woman’s Legacy in Alice Walker’s Possessing the Secret of Joy (Kimberly Joyce Pollock)“I was cryin’, all the people were cryin’, my mother was cryin’”: Aboriginality and Maternity in Sally Morgan’s My Place (Joyce Zonana)“My mother is here”: Buchi Emecheta’s Love Child (Patricia Lee Yongue)(Re)claiming the Race of the Mother: CherrÍe Moraga’s Shadow of a Man, Giving Up the Ghost, and Heroes and Saints (Julia De Foor Jay)The Poetics of Matrilineage: Mothers and Daughters in the Poetry of African American Women, 1965-1985 (Fabian Clements Worshma)The Mother as Other: Orientalism in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior (Sheryl A. Mylan)Love and Conflict: Mexican American Women Writers as Daughters (Maria Gonzalez)Mother-Daughter Relationships as Epistemological Structures: Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead and Storyteller (Charlene Taylor Evans)Disrupted Motherlines: Mothers and Daughters in a Genderized, Sexualized, and Racialized World (Elizabeth Brown-Guillory)Voice, Mind, Self: Mother-Daughter Relationships in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God’s Wife (M. Marie Booth Foster)To Make Herself: Mother-Daughter Conflicts in Toni Morrison’s Sula and Tar Baby (Lucille P. Fultz)Index