Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Literature

1. Introduction: Embryonic Beginnings
Abigail L. Palko

2. “A Mother-of-Sufferer”: Subversive Mothering in the Caribbean and Irish Traditions
Abigail L. Palko

Part I. Rejecting Motherhood

3. The Traumatized Not-Mother
Abigail L. Palko

4. The Motherless Not-Mother
Abigail L. Palko

Part II. Redefining Motherhood

5. The Lesbian Daughter
Abigail L. Palko

6. The Lesbian Mother
Abigail L. Palko

7. Conclusion: “If You Can’t Trust Me with Choice, How Can You Trust Me with a Child?”*
Abigail L. Palko

Keywords: Literature, Postmodern Literature, British and Irish Literature, Contemporary Literature