Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Literature / by Abigail L. Palko.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Palko, Abigail L., Author.

Series:

New Caribbean Studies, 2634-5196

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--20th century.

Literature, Modern.

European literature.

Literature, Modern--21st century.

Twentieth-Century Literature.

European Literature.

Contemporary Literature.

Local Subjects:

Twentieth-Century Literature.

European Literature.

Contemporary Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2016.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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 .

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137600745

1137600748