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2013
Overview
On the day that I first read Gwendolyn Brooks’s only novel, Maud Martha (1953), I had finished the graphic scene of Maud’s daughter’s birth in a tenement apartment when I decided to take a break. That day, I watched a broadcast of the I Love Lucy episode in which Lucy enters the hospital to give birth.¹ I was struck by the difference between these two birth scenes created within the same year: Maud Martha’s like something out of the tradition of blood-and-tears literary Naturalism; Lucy’s an ultrasterilized birth, to the extent that Lucy disappears completely from the episode once she
Publisher
State University of New York Press,SUNY Press
ISBN
1438447698, 9781438447698
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