Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Literature

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-60270-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4501 g

Reihe: New Caribbean Studies

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Palko, Abigail L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Irische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Postkoloniale Literaturen in Englisch, Englische Literatur außerhalb Europas
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.