Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Literature

AvAbigail L. Palko

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Literature undertakes a comparative transnational reading to develop more expansive literary models of good mothering. Abigail L. Palko argues that Irish and Caribbean literary representations of non-normative mothering practices do not reflect transgressive or dangerous mothering but are rather cultural negotiations of the definition of a good mother. This original book demonstrates the sustained commitment to countering the dominant ideologies of maternal self-sacrifice foundational to both Irish and Caribbean nationalist rhetoric, offering instead the possibility of integrating maternal agency into an effective model of female citizenship.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-08-09
Mått:148 x 210 x 20 mm
Vikt:456 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Caribbean Studies
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781137602701

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Abigail L. Palko is the Associate Director of the Gender Studies Program at the University of Notre Dame, USA. A Faculty Fellow of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies and an Affiliate Faculty member of the Department of Africana Studies, she researches and teaches contemporary Irish and Caribbean novels, focusing on their representations of motherhood.

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Introduction: Embryonic Beginnings.- “A mother-of-sufferer”: Subversive Mothering in the Caribbean and Irish Traditions.- Part I: Rejecting Motherhood.- The Traumatized Not-Mother.- The Motherless Not-Mother.- Part II: Redefining Motherhood.- The Lesbian Daughter.- The Lesbian Mother.- Conclusion: “If you can’t trust me with choice, how can you trust me with a child?”.- Works Cited