Imagining motherhood in contemporary Irish and Caribbean literature. ([2016])
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- Book
- Title:
- Imagining motherhood in contemporary Irish and Caribbean literature. ([2016])
- Main Title:
- Imagining motherhood in contemporary Irish and Caribbean literature
- Further Information:
- Note: Abigail L. Palko.
- Authors:
- Palko, Abigail L
- Contents:
- Dedication ; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction: Embryonic Beginnings; Theorizing a Transatlantic Irish-Caribbean Connection; Considering Difference; Complicating the Image of Mother Ireland and Mother Africa: Literary Revisions of the Good Mother Trope in Irish and Caribbean Novels; Notes; Chapter 2: "A Mother-of-Sufferer": Subversive Mothering in the Caribbean and Irish Traditions; The Maternal Imaginary; Maternal Fictions; Twentieth-Century Irish Maternity; Motherhood in the Caribbean Context; "Mother-of-Sufferer"; Notes; Part I: Rejecting Motherhood. Chapter 3: The Traumatized Not-Mother Motherless Daughters; Exploring a "female kind of darkness": Mary Morrissy's Mother of Pearl (1996); "A long ways from home": Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994); The Traumatized Not-Mother; Notes; Chapter 4: The Motherless Not-Mother; Daughterless Mothers; Catapulted from the Nursery: Clairr O'Connor's Belonging (1991); I Am of the Defeated: Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother (1996); The Motherless Not-Mother; Notes; Part II: Redefining Motherhood; Chapter 5: The Lesbian Daughter; Speaking Silenced Sexualities. Coming to Country: Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven (1987)Confrontations with the Maternal Imago: Emma Donoghue's Hood (1995); The Lesbian Daughter; Notes; Chapter 6: The Lesbian Mother; Maternal Sexualities; Mr. Lowe, the Grieving Birth Mother: Patricia Powell's The Pagoda (1998); Queering the Mother: Mary Dorcey's Biography ofDedication ; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction: Embryonic Beginnings; Theorizing a Transatlantic Irish-Caribbean Connection; Considering Difference; Complicating the Image of Mother Ireland and Mother Africa: Literary Revisions of the Good Mother Trope in Irish and Caribbean Novels; Notes; Chapter 2: "A Mother-of-Sufferer": Subversive Mothering in the Caribbean and Irish Traditions; The Maternal Imaginary; Maternal Fictions; Twentieth-Century Irish Maternity; Motherhood in the Caribbean Context; "Mother-of-Sufferer"; Notes; Part I: Rejecting Motherhood. Chapter 3: The Traumatized Not-Mother Motherless Daughters; Exploring a "female kind of darkness": Mary Morrissy's Mother of Pearl (1996); "A long ways from home": Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994); The Traumatized Not-Mother; Notes; Chapter 4: The Motherless Not-Mother; Daughterless Mothers; Catapulted from the Nursery: Clairr O'Connor's Belonging (1991); I Am of the Defeated: Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother (1996); The Motherless Not-Mother; Notes; Part II: Redefining Motherhood; Chapter 5: The Lesbian Daughter; Speaking Silenced Sexualities. Coming to Country: Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven (1987)Confrontations with the Maternal Imago: Emma Donoghue's Hood (1995); The Lesbian Daughter; Notes; Chapter 6: The Lesbian Mother; Maternal Sexualities; Mr. Lowe, the Grieving Birth Mother: Patricia Powell's The Pagoda (1998); Queering the Mother: Mary Dorcey's Biography of Desire (1997); The Lesbian Mother; Notes; Chapter 7: Conclusion: "If You Can't Trust Me with Choice, How Can You Trust Me with a Child?"*; Works Cited; Index. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (xii, 256 pages .)
- Subjects:
- 820.935252
Literature
Motherhood in literature
Postmodernism (Literature)
British literature
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary
Motherhood in literature
Literary Criticism -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literature: history & criticism
Literary studies: from c 1900
Literature
Postmodern Literature
British and Irish Literature
Contemporary Literature
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781137600745
1137600748
1137602708
9781137602701 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781137602701
1137602708 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-247) and index.
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