Motherlove in Shades of Black

<p> This book closely examines the mother figure in six works by African American women at various times in American history: Harriet Jacobs's <I>Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl</I>, Pauline Hopkins's <I>Contending Forces</I>, Nella Larsen's <I>Passing</I>, Gwendolyn Brooks's <I>Maud Martha</I>, Alice Walker's <I>The Color Purple</I>, and Toni Morrison's <I>Beloved</I>. It studies how the mother in each novel neg