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Reading/Speaking/Writing the mother text : essays on Caribbean women's writing /
While scholarship on Caribbean women's literature has grown into an established discipline, there are not many studies explicitly connected to the maternal subject matter, and among them only a few book-length texts have focalized motherhood and maternity in writings by Caribbean women. Reading...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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BRADFORD :
DEMETER Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The Poetics of Motherhood and Maternity in Caribbean Women's Writing / Paula Sanmartín and Cristina Herrera
- Accepting a Daughter: Gisè̀le Pineau's L'espérance-macadam, / Abigail L. Palko
- "Or Not to Mother?" Astrid Roemer's Lijken op liefde ("Looks Like Love") / Doris Hambuch
- "My Destiny Was to Come to this Island": Maternal Rejection and Colonization in Esmeralda Santiago's Conquistadora / Cristina Herrera
- Memory, Myth and History in Shara McCallum's Mother/Daughter Poems / Adrienne McCormick
- From "Australian Whiteness" to Caribbean Self: Maryse Condé's Matrilineal Family Narrative of Identity Detection / Amy Lee
- "My Mama Had a Story": Mothers and Intergenerational Relations in Andrea Levy's Fiction / Charlotte Beyer
- Palè Andaki: Genre, History and Mother-Daughter Doublespeak in Edwidge Danticat's Fiction / Angeletta KM Gourdine
- Sharing the (M)Other's Text: Mother-Daughter Relationships in Black Cuban Wome's Talking Texts / Paula Sanmartín
- "She Had Put the Servant in Her Place": Sexual Violence and Generational Social Policing between Women in Marie-Elena John's Unburnable / Amy K. King
- Loss of Mother, Loss of Self: Orphanhood in Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother / Daniel Arbino
- Motherhood by Default: Rethinking the Patriarchal Family in Gisèle Pineau's Novels / Florence Ramond Jurney.