Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Literature
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Aug 09, 2016
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781137602701
Description: "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."--
Notes: Source title: Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Literature (New Caribbean Studies)