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Nurturing, domineering, suffering, self-sacrificing--literary portrayals of mothers and their children from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. Fantasies about maternal origin in Shakespeare's Hamlet and King Lear. Seventeenth-century medical theories and the invigoration of a concept of motherhood that focused on the intimacy of mother-child relationships in the works of Mme de Sévigné and Mme de La Fayette. Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, the great all-American character of Mama Lena, and the revolutionary potential of strong black mothers.
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