03330nam 22005775 450 991025523920332120201005200752.01-137-60074-810.1057/978-1-137-60074-5(CKB)3710000000765500(EBL)4716428(DE-He213)978-1-137-60074-5(MiAaPQ)EBC4716428(EXLCZ)99371000000076550020160725d2016 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierImagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Literature /by Abigail L. Palko1st ed. 2016.New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2016.1 online resource (264 p.)New Caribbean Studies,2691-3011Description based upon print version of record.1-137-60270-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.New Caribbean Studies,2691-3011Postmodernism (Literature)British literatureLiterature, Modern—20th centuryLiterature, Modern—21st centuryPostmodern Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/837000British and Irish Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/833000Contemporary Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/815000Postmodernism (Literature).British literature.Literature, Modern—20th century.Literature, Modern—21st century.Postmodern Literature.British and Irish Literature.Contemporary Literature.820.935252Palko Abigail Lauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1062769BOOK9910255239203321Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Literature2528421UNINA