Reading/Speaking/Writing the Mother Text; Essays on Caribbean Women's Writing.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (175 pages)
Intro -- READING/SPEAKING/WRITING THE MOTHER TEXT: Essays on Caribbean Women's Writing -- Title Page -- Copyright Notice -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Poetics of Motherhood and Maternity in Caribbean Women's Writing PAULA SANMARTÍN AND CRISTINA HERRERA -- I. ON BEING A MOTHER: CHALLENGING MOTHERHOOD AND THE MOTHER AS "OTHER" -- 1. Accepting a Daughter Gisèle Pineau's L'espérance-macadam ABIGAIL L. PALKO -- 2. "Or Not to Mother?" Astrid Roemer's Lijken op liefde ("Looks Like Love") DORIS HAMBUCH -- 3. "My Destiny Was to Come to this Island" Maternal Rejection and Colonization in Esmeralda Santiago's Conquistadora CRISTINA HERRERA -- II. MATRILINEALISM AND MATERNAL LEGACIES -- 4. Memory, Myth and History in Shara McCallum's Mother/Daughter Poems ADRIENNE MCCORMICK -- 5. From "Australian Whiteness" to Caribbean Self Maryse Condé's Matrilineal Family Narrative of Identity Detection AMY LEE -- III. MOTHERLY, DAUGHTERLY VOICES AND HERSTORIES -- 6. "My Mama Had a Story" Mothers and Intergenerational Relations in Andrea Levy's Fiction CHARLOTTE BEYER -- 7. Palè Andaki Genre, History and Mother-Daughter Doublespeak in Edwidge Danticat's Fiction ANGELETTA KM GOURDINE -- 8. Sharing the (M)Other's Text Mother-Daughter Relationships in Black Cuban1 Women's Talking Texts PAULA SANMARTÍN -- IV. TROUBLING MOTHERHOOD: MATERNAL ABSENCE, REJECTION, AND VIOLENCE -- 9. "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 -- 10. Loss of Mother, Loss of Self Orphanhood in Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother DANIEL ARBINO -- 11. Motherhood by Default Rethinking the Patriarchal Family in Gisèle Pineau's Novels1 FLORENCE RAMOND JURNEY -- About the Contributors.