Home Matters: Longing and Belonging, Nostalgia and Mourning in Women’s Fiction

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Home Matters: Longing and Belonging....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Yearning and Nostalgia: Fiction and Autobiographical Writings of Virginia Woolf and Doris Lessing....Pages 13-33
Front Matter....Pages 35-35
Home is (Mother) Earth: Animal Dreams, Barbara Kingsolver....Pages 37-51
Home/lands and Contested Motherhood: The Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven, Barbara Kingsolver....Pages 53-64
Inverted Narrative as the Path/Past Home: How the Garcia Girís Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez....Pages 65-77
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
Home/sickness and the Five Stages of Grief: Ladder of Years, Anne Tyler....Pages 81-94
Hom(e)age to the Ancestors: Praisesong for the Widow, Paule Marshall....Pages 95-109
Haunted Longing and the Presence of Absence: Jazz, Toni Morrison....Pages 111-123
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
Memory, Mourning, and Maternal Triangulations: Mama Day, Gloria Naylor....Pages 127-139
Amazing Grace and the Paradox of Paradise: Paradise, Toni Morrison....Pages 141-158
Fixing the Past, Re-Placing Nostalgia....Pages 159-165
Back Matter....Pages 167-210