Imagining motherhood in contemporary Irish and Caribbean literature. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• 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 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.
• 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.; Note: Print version record.
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