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UNINA9910255239203321 |
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Autore |
Palko Abigail L |
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Titolo |
Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Literature / / by Abigail L. Palko |
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New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2016.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (264 p.) |
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Collana |
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New Caribbean Studies, , 2691-3011 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Postmodernism (Literature) |
British literature |
Literature, Modern—20th century |
Literature, Modern—21st century |
Postmodern Literature |
British and Irish Literature |
Contemporary Literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 . |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. 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, |
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