Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Literature

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 reflec...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Palko, Abigail L. (-)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan 2016.
Colección:New Caribbean Studies.
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Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b34509586*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Embryonic Beginnings
  • zA mother-of-sufferery: 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: zIf you can’t trust me with choice, how can you trust me with a child?y
  • Works Cited .