Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Literature [[electronic resource] /] / by Abigail L. Palko
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| Autore: |
Palko Abigail L
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| Titolo: |
Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Literature [[electronic resource] /] / by Abigail L. Palko
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2016. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 820.935252 |
| Soggetto topico: | Postmodernism (Literature) |
| British literature | |
| Literature, Modern—20th century | |
| Literature, Modern—21st century | |
| Postmodern Literature | |
| British and Irish Literature | |
| Contemporary Literature | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 . |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Literature |
| ISBN: | 1-137-60074-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910255239203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
New Caribbean Studies, . 2691-3011