Acree Graham Macam Wrote about Mothers Haunting Boys and Women in Carson McCullers’ Short Stories
For Electric Literature, Acree Graham Macam wrote an essay about Carson McCullers’ fiction pondering how it’s “critiquing the patriarchal vision of family continues to resonate 70 years later in our #tradwife era.”
Acree writes, “The men and boys in these stories desire mothering, but they look for it in motherhood—the uncanny double that their own sex has invented and imposed. To enjoy true mothering—the tender care and comfort, the love and connection and kindness—would require them to give up the jig: to relinquish their power and dominance.”
Acree’s writing has appeared in The Rumpus, Los Angeles Review of Books, Harvard Review, and other outlets.
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