... intervenes in two overlapping conversations. On the one hand, it continues a tradition of women's poetic experimentation that seeks to revalue pregnancy and motherhood as viable topics for poetry while resisting sentimentalized and restrictive narratives through formal innovation; on the other, it continues...

...- ful pregnancies: “All those children were what did [Ruby’s mother] in — eight of them: two born dead, one died the first year, one crushed under a mowing machine. Her mother had got deader with every one of them” (O’Connor [1955a] 1981a, 66). Interestingly, the story also undercuts the claim...

... of their country; her attempts to stop lying and to succeed in school; and more centrally her friend Toycie’s pregnancy, expulsion from school, mental breakdown, and death in a hurricane. The sense of individual progress or development as well as the presence of common mark- ers of female development...

... with an illegitimate pregnancy, the result of an illicit union, through which his line can be extended. Although Bathsheba's nameless first child soon dies, the royal sponsorship of her pregnancy led to further offspring, potential heirs to the throne. David's line stands in place of Judah's. Solomon's...

... that has burgeoned since 1996. Some chick novels, such as Lauren Baratz-­Logsted’s The Thin Pink Line (2003) or Patricia Pearson’s Play- ing House (2003), are focused on stabilizing a relationship through a child. The former story of a pretend pregnancy culminates in the fortuitous discovery...

... as the "Arnolfini Wedding". Their discovery that the famous pregnancy was most probably a phantom—an illusion created by the style and carriage of the dress— has not prevented further theorising on the painting, nor has it exhausted its enigmas. If Blow Job's interest evaporates just because the 'truth...

... as the "Arnolfini Wedding". Their discovery that the famous pregnancy was most probably a phantom—an illusion created by the style and carriage of the dress— has not prevented further theorising on the painting, nor has it exhausted its enigmas. If Blow Job's interest evaporates just because the 'truth...

.... . . . : 1. There is insufficient investment from the father or others to successfully raise the offspring. 2. There are problems with pregnancy, birth, or with the infant that indicate that this offspring may have low viability, that is, is unlikely to survive to reproductive...

... of Texas Press, 1984. READING CLARICE LISPECTOR 155 a woman uttered when drunk were like being pregnant—mere words on her lips which had nothing to do with the secret core that seemed like a pregnancy" (31). Her "secret core" strongly intimates...

... of the body, the life of the belly and the reproduc- tive organs; it therefore relates to acts of defecation and copulation, conception, 4. For example, see Bauer and McKinstry 1991; Hohne and Wussow 1994; Russo 1986. 308 GENRE pregnancy, and birth” (21). The stories of In a German Pension...

... pregnancy are signs of loose morals to be policed — and that might serve as cause for deportation. When the immi- gration agent interviews Mulberry, he insists that she recount her sexual his- tory outside marriage, demanding that Mulberry provide details on whom she had sex with, when, how many times...

... traveling in England in 1984; she was six months pregnant and we felt confident the pregnancy would not end in miscarriage this time. We had been enmeshed in a lawsuit which was soon to terminate. In England, we made a practice of map- ping out driving tours and using day hikes...

...,” the odd and unnatural “speechless stretch at a gathering” resembles a “kind of silence, as if in pregnancy [that] bubbles with irrepressible pants of breath” (286). These metaphors, strange and surprising as they seem on the surface, make the read- ers feel...

... sex or out-of wed- lock pregnancy (provided the young couple intended to marry); or that abortion was legal during much of the 19th century; or that the alleged "golden age" of the 1950s white middle-class family was marred by rampant alcohol and drug abuse among suburban housewives, and high...

..., dressing it up in a number of other complaints. I’m not even sure it is a disease, more some sort of pregnancy. Nonetheless, it requires a careful 326 GENRE midwifery. Having said all of that, I suspect the best way for me to explain ache to you is for me to show...

... understanding, while her later ones reflect a mature experience: Owls remind her of a difficult pregnancy, and thoughts of her husband prompt an assessment of herself as "twenty-nine years OTHERED WRITERS, OTHER FORMS 341 old and a failure in my eyes...

.... The heavenly trinity . . . indulges in a marathon series of erotic pokings and prodings and squirtings, and the result is creation" (134). Having cited some of the imagery of pregnancy, wombs, ejaculation, and seminal fluids, Boehrer concludes, "Son and Holy Spirit keep coming and coming into the hole...

... from the narrator would appear entirely natural; Zafar has just revealed that he knows the narrator has betrayed him twice over, first by impregnating Emily while Zafar was institutionalized, and then by helping Emily pass this (eventually terminated) pregnancy off on Zafar. But Zafar rejects...

... alone. Maria is also left by her Korean husband during her pregnancy. The list of dysfunctional families goes on. In this regard, McCann s (2000: 67) view of Hammett s fiction that family turns out to be a distinctly compromised idea is entirely applicable to The Interpreter. The topic of the broken...

... to be - during the bus ride, it seems that her mind deliberately takes refuge in banali- ties. In hindsight, the experiential banality and the continual distraction seem to indirectly affirm the sweeping significance of the pregnancy and its abrupt termination - a significance that is nearly concealed...