Drawing on archival sources much of it neglected by Sands previousbiographers Elizabeth Harlan examines the intertwined issues of maternity andidentity that hau... » 

Drawing on archival sources much of it neglected by Sands previousbiographers Elizabeth Harlan examines the intertwined issues of maternity andidentity that haunt Sands writing and defined her life. Why was Sandsrelationship with her daughter so fraught? Why was a woman so famous for herpersonal and literary audacity ultimately so conflicted about womensliberation? In an effort to solve the riddle of Sands identity Harlanexamines a latticework of lives that include Solange Sands mother andgrandmother and Sands own protagonists whose stories amplify her own. «