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Intro
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Mothers, Mobility, Narrative: Comparative Studies of Maternality in US Literature
Motherhood Literary Studies Now
Cavarero and Collins in Tandem
Motherhood Studies across Intersections and Feminist Literary Criticism
Diasporic Space, Maternal Time
Chapter Summaries
Mothering Narratives
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
Maternal Plotting in Jacobs and Cather
Jacobs's Enslaved Mother: True Womanhood, Moral Motherhood
Cather's Unimagined Black Motherhood
Space Matters: Jacobs's Garret
Space Matters: Cather's Double
Homes without Dread: Jacobs's "Free at Last" and Cather's Faux Reunion
2. Long-Distance Mothering and Generational Haunting in Morrison's Beloved and García's Dreaming in Cuban
Mothers and Daughters Longing for Less Distance
Where and When They Enter: 1873
When and Where They Enter: 1959
The Daughter's Abduction, the Mother's Wounds
Daughter-Mother Wounds
Bridges to Diasporan Elsewheres
or, Water's Way
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
Genre-Bending Daughters
Cover Stories: Lorde
Cover Stories: Ragusa
Made in Harlem: Daughters of Abduction and Migrating Backwards
Carving Out Queer Spaces: The Lesbian Bar and the Religious Procession
Geographies of Return
4. Queer Maternality in Maso's The Art Lover and Makkai's The Great Believers
Mourning the Body Electric: Metafiction and Maternality
Caroline's Hieroglyphs of Hope
Mourning Becomes Fiona
After Such Knowledge, What Forgiveness?
Coda
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Mothers, Mobility, Narrative: Comparative Studies of Maternality in US Literature
Motherhood Literary Studies Now
Cavarero and Collins in Tandem
Motherhood Studies across Intersections and Feminist Literary Criticism
Diasporic Space, Maternal Time
Chapter Summaries
Mothering Narratives
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
Maternal Plotting in Jacobs and Cather
Jacobs's Enslaved Mother: True Womanhood, Moral Motherhood
Cather's Unimagined Black Motherhood
Space Matters: Jacobs's Garret
Space Matters: Cather's Double
Homes without Dread: Jacobs's "Free at Last" and Cather's Faux Reunion
2. Long-Distance Mothering and Generational Haunting in Morrison's Beloved and García's Dreaming in Cuban
Mothers and Daughters Longing for Less Distance
Where and When They Enter: 1873
When and Where They Enter: 1959
The Daughter's Abduction, the Mother's Wounds
Daughter-Mother Wounds
Bridges to Diasporan Elsewheres
or, Water's Way
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
Genre-Bending Daughters
Cover Stories: Lorde
Cover Stories: Ragusa
Made in Harlem: Daughters of Abduction and Migrating Backwards
Carving Out Queer Spaces: The Lesbian Bar and the Religious Procession
Geographies of Return
4. Queer Maternality in Maso's The Art Lover and Makkai's The Great Believers
Mourning the Body Electric: Metafiction and Maternality
Caroline's Hieroglyphs of Hope
Mourning Becomes Fiona
After Such Knowledge, What Forgiveness?
Coda
Notes
Bibliography
Index