ISBN:
9781137600745
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XII, 256 p)
Series Statement:
New Caribbean Studies
Series Statement:
Springer eBook Collection
Series Statement:
Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
Parallel Title:
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Keywords:
Literature
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Literature, Modern 20th century
;
Literature, Modern 21st century
;
British literature
;
Postmodernism (Literature)
;
Literature
;
Literature, Modern 20th century
;
Literature, Modern 21st century
;
British literature
;
Postmodernism (Literature)
;
Irland
;
Roman
;
Englisch
;
Mutterschaft
;
Mutter
;
Karibik
Abstract:
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
DOI:
10.1057/978-1-137-60074-5
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