Bibliograph

Mothers, fathers, and others, essays, Siri Hustvedt

Type

Label

Mothers, fathers, and others, essays, Siri Hustvedt

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Mothers, fathers, and others

Oclc number

1287262568

Responsibility statement

Siri Hustvedt

Sub title

essays

Summary

In this essay collection in which feminist philosophy meets family memoir, the novelist and scholar moves effortlessly between stories of her mother, grandmother, and daughter to connect mothers to the broader meanings of maternity in a culture shaped by misogyny and fantasies of paternal authority

Table Of Contents

Tillie -- My mother's ocean and how it became mine -- Stones and ashes -- A walk with my mother -- States of mind -- Mentor ghosts -- Open borders -- Notes from New York -- Reading during the plague -- When I met you I saw myself as another -- The future of literature -- Translation stories -- The sinbad variations -- He dropped his pen -- The enigma of reading -- Living thing -- Visiting St. Francis -- Both-and -- What does a man want? -- Scapegoat

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