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

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

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


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Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Literature undertakes a comparative transnational reading to develop more expansive literary models of good mothering.

Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Literature Summary

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

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.

About Abigail L. Palko

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.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction: Embryonic Beginnings

Chapter 1 - A mother-of-sufferer: Subversive Mothering in the Caribbean and Irish Traditions

Part I: Rejecting Motherhood

Chapter 2 - The Traumatized Not-Mother

Chapter 3 - The Motherless Not-Mother

Part II: Redefining Motherhood

Chapter 4 - The Lesbian Daughter

Chapter 5 - The Lesbian Mother

Conclusion: If you can't trust me with choice, how can you trust me with a child?

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NLS9781349933815
9781349933815
1349933813
Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Literature by Abigail L. Palko
New
Paperback
Palgrave Macmillan
2021-03-22
256
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