Mothers, Mobility, Narrative

Maternality in US Literature

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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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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Utgivningsdatum2025-05-01
Mått152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt476 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series in Multiethnic Literatures
Antal sidor250
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9798855802009

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Mothers, Mobility, Narrative: Comparative Studies of Maternality in US Literature1. Mother-Daughter Plots and Maternal Black Bodies: Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Cather's Sapphira and the Slave Girl2. Long-Distance Mothering and Generational Haunting in Morrison's Beloved and García's Dreaming in Cuban3. 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 Belonging4. Queer Maternality in Maso's The Art Lover and Makkai's The Great BelieversCodaNotesBibliographyIndex

"By placing literary texts by women from multiple ethnic cultures in conversation, Mary Jo Bona makes a much-needed intervention into motherhood studies. In Bona's reading, these texts demonstrate how women singularly construct practices of motherhood that resist social scripts. Among other things, the book offers a fresh, timely look at the AIDS health crisis and its impact on the LGBTQ community over decades and across genders, drawing on the work of Audre Lorde to explore literary representations of queer maternality among caretakers." — A Yęmisi Jimoh, coeditor of These Truly Are the Brave: An Anthology of African American Writings on War and Citizenship