- 240 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Shows how US literary representations of mothering across racial, ethnic, and LGBTQ communities challenge ideological prescriptions about motherhood and maternal love.
Mothers, Mobility, Narrative pairs women-identified writers whose work illuminates a range of maternal practices in the face of egregious structural inequalities and obstacles. By using the critical lens of maternal feminism, alongside recent theories of time, space, and memory, Mary Jo Bona reengages the field of motherhood studies to explore linkages between motherhood and movement. Across genres, Harriet Jacobs, Willa Cather, Toni Morrison, Audre Lorde, Kym Ragusa, Carole Maso, Cristina García, and Rebecca Makkai develop maternal figures who, in battling against institutional oppressions in eras of slavocracy, colonialism, dictatorship, and pandemic, expose the fundamentally intersectional nature of social categorization and disrupt traditional discourses of the maternal. Mothers, Mobility, Narrative rethinks maternality across a century and a half of literary expression in the United States, compelling readers to embrace more capacious understandings of maternal subjectivity, care, and kinship.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Mothers, Mobility, Narrative: Comparative Studies of Maternality in US Literature
- 1. Mother-Daughter Plots and Maternal Black Bodies: Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Cather’s Sapphira and the Slave Girl
- 2. Long-Distance Mothering and Generational Haunting in Morrison’s Beloved and García’s Dreaming in Cuban
- 3. Matrilineal Desire and Geographies of Return in Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of My Name and Ragusa’s The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging
- 4. Queer Maternality in Maso’s The Art Lover and Makkai’s The Great Believers
- Coda
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover