TY  - BOOK
AU  - Palko,Abigail L.
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Literature
T2  - New Caribbean Studies
SN  - 9781137600745(ebook:PDF)
U1  - 809 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan US(Imprint)
KW  - Postmodernism (Literature)
KW  - British literature
KW  - Literature, Modern-20th century
KW  - Contemporary Literature
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60074-5
ER  -