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Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Literature
Abigail L. Palko
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Description for Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Literature
Hardback. Series: New Caribbean Studies. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1KJ; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 159 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
New Caribbean Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137602701
SKU
V9781137602701
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About Abigail L. Palko
Abigail L. Palko is the Associate Director of the Gender Studies Program at the University of Notre Dame, USA. A Faculty Fellow of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies and an Affiliate Faculty member of the Department of Africana Studies, she researches and teaches contemporary Irish and Caribbean novels, focusing on their representations of motherhood.
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