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Imagining motherhood in contemporary Irish and Caribbean literature

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Imagining motherhood in contemporary Irish and Caribbean literature/ by Abigail L. Palko.
Author:	Palko, Abigail L.
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan US : : 2016.,
Description:	xii, 256 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Motherhood in literature. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60074-5
ISBN:	9781137600745

Imagining motherhood in contemporary Irish and Caribbean literature
Palko, Abigail L.

Imagining motherhood in contemporary Irish and Caribbean literature[electronic resource] /by Abigail L. Palko. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :2016. - xii, 256 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - New Caribbean studies. - New Caribbean studies..

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

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.

ISBN: 9781137600745

Standard No.: 10.1057/978-1-137-60074-5doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

567843
Motherhood in literature.

LC Class. No.: PR8722.M68 / P35 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 820.935252

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