Leighan Renaud is Lecturer in Caribbean Literatures and Cultures at the University of Bristol. She completed her PhD in English at the University of Leicester 2018. Her current research focuses on oral folk traditions in the Eastern Caribbean. Mothering and Matrifocality is her first monograph.

• Acknowledgements – Introduction: ‘All Is Me’: Matrifocality and Mothering in the Anglophone Caribbean - Chapter 1: ‘A Natural Aversion to Slavery’: Matrifocality and Marronage in The Book of Night Women and Unburnable – Chapter 2: ‘Men Walked’: Constructing the Matrifocal Family in Jacob Ross’ Pynter Bender – Chapter 3: Three-Twist Women in Nalo Hopkinson’s The Salt Roads - Chapter 4: ‘The end linked with the beginning and was even the beginning’: Fractal Poetics in Erna Brodber’s Nothing’s Mat – Chapter 5: Magic, Matrilineage, and the Grandmother in The Star Side of Bird Hill and When We Were Birds – Conclusion – Bibliography - Index

Leighan Renaud is Lecturer in Caribbean Literatures and Cultures at the University of Bristol. She completed her PhD in English at the University of Leicester 2018. Her current research focuses on oral folk traditions in the Eastern Caribbean. Mothering and Matrifocality is her first monograph.

• Acknowledgements – Introduction: ‘All Is Me’: Matrifocality and Mothering in the Anglophone Caribbean - Chapter 1: ‘A Natural Aversion to Slavery’: Matrifocality and Marronage in The Book of Night Women and Unburnable – Chapter 2: ‘Men Walked’: Constructing the Matrifocal Family in Jacob Ross’ Pynter Bender – Chapter 3: Three-Twist Women in Nalo Hopkinson’s The Salt Roads - Chapter 4: ‘The end linked with the beginning and was even the beginning’: Fractal Poetics in Erna Brodber’s Nothing’s Mat – Chapter 5: Magic, Matrilineage, and the Grandmother in The Star Side of Bird Hill and When We Were Birds – Conclusion – Bibliography - Index

Leighan Renaud is Lecturer in Caribbean Literatures and Cultures at the University of Bristol. She completed her PhD in English at the University of Leicester 2018. Her current research focuses on oral folk traditions in the Eastern Caribbean. Mothering and Matrifocality is her first monograph.

• Acknowledgements – Introduction: ‘All Is Me’: Matrifocality and Mothering in the Anglophone Caribbean - Chapter 1: ‘A Natural Aversion to Slavery’: Matrifocality and Marronage in The Book of Night Women and Unburnable – Chapter 2: ‘Men Walked’: Constructing the Matrifocal Family in Jacob Ross’ Pynter Bender – Chapter 3: Three-Twist Women in Nalo Hopkinson’s The Salt Roads - Chapter 4: ‘The end linked with the beginning and was even the beginning’: Fractal Poetics in Erna Brodber’s Nothing’s Mat – Chapter 5: Magic, Matrilineage, and the Grandmother in The Star Side of Bird Hill and When We Were Birds – Conclusion – Bibliography - Index