Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Literature

AvAbigail L. Palko

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

Del i serien New Caribbean Studies

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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.

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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