Reading/speaking/writing the mother text : essays on Caribbean women's writing / edited by Cristina Herrera and Paula Sanmartín.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sanmartín, Paula, editor.

Herrera, Cristina (Chicano studies professor), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caribbean literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Caribbean literature.

Caribbean literature--History and criticism.

Motherhood in literature.

Mothers in literature.

Women, Black, in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 256 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bradford, ON : Demeter Press, [2015]

Summary:

While scholarship on Caribbean women's literature has grown into an established discipline, there are not many studies explicitly connected to the maternal subject matter, and among them only a few book-length texts have focalized motherhood and maternity in writings by Caribbean women. Reading/Speaking/Writing the Mother Text: Essays on Caribbean Women's Writing encourages a crucial dialogue surrounding the state of motherhood scholarship within the Caribbean literary landscape, to call for attention on a theme that, although highly visible, remains understudied by academics. While this collection presents a similar comparative and diasporic approach to other book-length studies on Caribbean women's writing, it deals with the complexity of including a wider geographical, linguistic, ethnic and generic diversity, while exposing the myriad ways in which Caribbean women authors shape and construct their texts to theorize motherhood, mothering, maternity, and mother-daughter relationships.

Contents:

Intro

READING/SPEAKING/WRITING THE MOTHER TEXT: Essays on Caribbean Women's Writing

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Poetics of Motherhood and Maternity in Caribbean Women's Writing PAULA SANMARTÍN AND CRISTINA HERRERA

I. ON BEING A MOTHER: CHALLENGING MOTHERHOOD AND THE MOTHER AS "OTHER"

1. Accepting a Daughter Gisèle Pineau's L'espérance-macadam ABIGAIL L. PALKO

2. "Or Not to Mother?" Astrid Roemer's Lijken op liefde ("Looks Like Love") DORIS HAMBUCH

3. "My Destiny Was to Come to this Island" Maternal Rejection and Colonization in Esmeralda Santiago's Conquistadora CRISTINA HERRERA

II. MATRILINEALISM AND MATERNAL LEGACIES

4. Memory, Myth and History in Shara McCallum's Mother/Daughter Poems ADRIENNE MCCORMICK

5. From "Australian Whiteness" to Caribbean Self Maryse Condé's Matrilineal Family Narrative of Identity Detection AMY LEE

III. MOTHERLY, DAUGHTERLY VOICES AND HERSTORIES

6. "My Mama Had a Story" Mothers and Intergenerational Relations in Andrea Levy's Fiction CHARLOTTE BEYER

7. Palè Andaki Genre, History and Mother-Daughter Doublespeak in Edwidge Danticat's Fiction ANGELETTA KM GOURDINE

8. Sharing the (M)Other's Text Mother-Daughter Relationships in Black Cuban1 Women's Talking Texts PAULA SANMARTÍN

IV. TROUBLING MOTHERHOOD: MATERNAL ABSENCE, REJECTION, AND VIOLENCE

9. "She Had Put the Servant in Her Place" Sexual Violence and Generational Social Policing between Women in Marie-Elena John's Unburnable AMY K. KING

10. Loss of Mother, Loss of Self Orphanhood in Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother DANIEL ARBINO

11. Motherhood by Default Rethinking the Patriarchal Family in Gisèle Pineau's Novels1 FLORENCE RAMOND JURNEY

About the Contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-77258-025-2