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DLC |
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2015005264 |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780472072637 (hardcover) |
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9780472052639 (paper) |
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9780472121052 (ebook) |
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DLC |
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eng |
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rda |
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DLC |
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MvI |
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pcc |
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n-us---- |
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| Classification number |
PS374.M547 |
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E45 2015 |
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813.009/3526947 |
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23 |
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SOC028000 |
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LCO002000 |
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bisacsh |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Ellerby, Janet Mason, |
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Embroidering the Scarlet A : |
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unwed mothers and illegitimate children in American fiction and film / |
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Janet Mason Ellerby. |
| 246 30 - VARYING FORM OF TITLE |
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| Title proper/short title |
Unwed mothers and illegitimate children in American fiction and film |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
Ann Arbor : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
University of Michigan Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
[2015] |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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xii, 277 pages ; |
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24 cm |
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text |
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rdacontent |
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unmediated |
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rdamedia |
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volume |
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rdacarrier |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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"Embroidering the Scarlet A traces the evolution of the "fallen woman" from the earliest novels to recent representations in fiction and film, including The Scarlet Letter, The Sound and the Fury, The Color Purple, and Love Medicine, and the films Juno and Mother and Child. Interweaving her own experience as a pregnant teen forced to surrender her daughter and pledge secrecy for decades, Ellerby interrogates "out-of-wedlock" motherhood, mapping the ways archetypal scarlet women and their children have been exiled as social pariahs, pardoned as blameless pawns, and transformed into empowered women. Drawing on narrative, feminist, and autobiographical theory, the book examines the ways that the texts have affirmed, subverted, or challenged dominant thinking and the prevailing moral standards as they have shifted over time. Using her own life experience and her uniquely informed perspective, Ellerby assesses the effect these stories have on the lives of real women and children. By inhabiting the space where ideology meets narrative, Ellerby questions the constricting historical, cultural, and social parameters of female sexuality and permissible maternity. As a feminist cultural critique, a moving autobiographical journey, and an historical investigation that addresses both fiction and film, Embroidering the Scarlet A will appeal to students and scholars of literature, history, sociology, psychology, women's and gender studies, and film studies. The book will also interest general readers, as it relates the experience of surrendering a child to adoption at a time when birthmothers were still exiled, birth records were locked away, and secrecy was still mandatory. It will also appeal to those concerned with adoption or the cultural shifts that have changed our thinking about illegitimacy"-- |
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Provided by publisher. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-272) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Introduction -- The unwed mothers of the early American Novel -- Theodore Dreiser's all-giving angel: Jennie Gerhardt -- Edith Wharton's female enforcers -- The scarlet women of William Faulkner's The sound and the fury -- The unwed mother triumphant: Celie and Alice Walker's The color purple -- Illegitimacy and sexual violence -- Birthmothers in exile -- Fathering iIllegitimacy -- The legacy of secrets -- Birthmothers in the adoption triangle: Caroline Leavitt's Girls in trouble and Tim Kirkman's Loggerheads -- Comedy and the unwed mother -- Bearing sorrow -- Conclusion. |
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| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Ellerby, Janet Mason. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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American fiction |
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20th century |
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History and criticism. |
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American fiction |
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History and criticism |
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21st century. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Unmarried mothers in literature. |
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Illegitimate children in literature. |
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Unmarried mothers in motion pictures. |
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Illegitimate children in motion pictures. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies. |
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bisacsh |
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General. |
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bisacsh |
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u603420 |
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