Mothers, Mobility, Narrative: Maternality in Us Literature (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9798855802009)

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 Garc?a, 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.

Author: Mary Jo Bona
ISBN-13: 9798855802009
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2025
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d