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Paperback Embroidering the Scarlet a: Unwed Mothers and Illegitimate Children in American Fiction and Film Book

ISBN: 0472052632

ISBN13: 9780472052639

Embroidering the Scarlet a: Unwed Mothers and Illegitimate Children in American Fiction and Film

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Embroidering the Scarlet A traces the evolution of the "fallen woman" from the earliest novels to recent representations in fiction and film, including The Scarlet Letter, The Sound and the Fury, The Color Purple, and Love Medicine, and the films Juno and Mother and Child. Interweaving her own experience as a pregnant teen forced to surrender her daughter and pledge secrecy for decades, Ellerby interrogates...

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