{"product_id":"mothers-mobility-narrative-maternality-in-us-literature-9798855802009","title":"Mothers, Mobility, Narrative: Maternality in US Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShows how US literary representations of mothering across racial, ethnic, and LGBTQ communities challenge ideological prescriptions about motherhood and maternal love.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMothers, Mobility, Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eMothers, Mobility, Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Jo Bona \u003c\/b\u003eis Distinguished SUNY Professor in the Department of Women's, Gender \u0026amp; Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University. Among her many books, she is the author of \u003ci\u003eBy the Breath of Their Mouths: Narratives of Resistance in Italian America\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor, with Irma Maini, of \u003ci\u003eMultiethnic Literature and Canon Debates\u003c\/i\u003e, also by SUNY Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51276818841874,"sku":"9798855802009","price":125.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ee414249-3638-487c-a9df-484afb334b14.jpg?v=1747140818","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/mothers-mobility-narrative-maternality-in-us-literature-9798855802009","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}