Southern Mothers: Fact and Fictions in Southern Women's Writing (Southern Literary Studies). This item is unavailable.Southern Mothers: Fact and Fictions in Southern Women's Writing (Southern Literary Studies)

This collection of critical essays by prominent southern literary scholars examines the significance of motherhood in southern fiction. The essays probe the extent to which female southern writers have rejected or embraced the individual, social, and cultural understanding of motherhood.

Nagueyalti Warren is associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Emory University, where she teaches literature. She is the author of Lodestar and Other Night Lights, a collection of poetry.

Sally Wolff is associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Emory University, where she also teaches English. She is the author of Talking About William Faulkner: Interviews with Jimmy Faulkner and Others.