Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Literature

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, British
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Author: Abigail L. Palko ISBN: 9781137600745
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US Publication: July 25, 2016
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Language: English
Author: Abigail L. Palko
ISBN: 9781137600745
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication: July 25, 2016
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: English

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.

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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.

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