%0 Journal Article
%T "Children aren¡¯t everything": Maternal Ambivalences in Nella Larsen¡¯s Fiction Marie-Luise L ffler
%A L£¿ffler
%A Marie-Luise
%J COPAS : Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies
%D 2008
%I University of Regensburg
%X Focusing on the portrayal of motherhood in black women¡¯s speculative fiction, this essay discusses Jewelle Gomez¡¯s short story ¡°Louisiana 1850¡± (1991) and explores how Gomez establishes an egalitarian interracial maternal relationship between a white woman and a slave child. I will demonstrate how the trope of a maternal vampire in particular not only functions in the story to make a mothering relationship plausible, but ultimately challenges and dismantles normative maternal categories, both white and black.
%U http://copas.uni-regensburg.de/article/view/103/127