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Author: Charlotte Beyer ,
Janet MacLennan ,
Dorsia Smith Silva ,
Marjorie Tesser
Publisher: Demeter Press
Imprint: Demeter Press
ISBN: 9781772581799
ISBN 10: 1772581798
Pages: 275
Publication Date: 01 April 2019
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
TRAVELLIN? MAMA: Mothers, Mothering, and Travel is highly engaging and thought provoking volume that aptly balances creative and critical perspectives in exploring maternal travel by combining studies in travel writing with motherhood studies. This stimulating collection offers a truly interdisciplinary array of topics, insights and questions. It examines diverse geographical destinations and starting points and generates enriching reading experiences as it uncovers diverse, global, and complex issues of travel, mothering, and travel narratives. A significant contribution to maternal travel, it empowers interdisciplinary research that questions deeply rooted assumptions about women's lives and women's travel narratives in particular. It is a welcome and topical addition to an exciting, growing field of research. -- Dr Claudia Capancioni, Senior Lecturer in English and Program Leader, Bishop Grosseteste University Travellin? Mama is a timely collection of essays that moves well beyond the family vacation to examine maternal journeyings involving life experiences from professional requirements to enforced migrations. Effectively balancing creative, biographical and scholarly works, the volume's focus on travelling mothers and children offers a new and rich field of study in both travel and maternal scholarship and writing. -- Rita Bode is Professor of English Literature at Trent University, Canada Click here to read a review from Mom Egg Review
Author Information
Charlotte Beyer is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. She has published widely on crime fiction and contemporary literature. She is the editor of Teaching Crime Fiction (Palgrave, 2018), and Co-Editor of Mothers Without Their Children (Demeter Press, 2019) Janet MacLennan, born on an island in the Atlantic, has made her way to an island of quite different climes–from Canada to the Caribbean to make her home as a professor of communication, narrative researcher, and travellin’ mama to a travellin’ boy. Dorsía Smith Silva is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras in the Faculty of General Studies. She is the co-editor of Caribbean without Borders: Caribbean Literature, Language, and Culture (2008), among others. In addition, her poetry has appeared in Adanna, POUI, and Nourish. Marjorie Tesser is the author of two poetry chapbooks THE IMPORTANT THING IS(Firewheel Award Winner) and The Magic Feather. Her poems and short fiction have appeared in Drunken Boat, Akashic Press’ Thursdaze, Earth’s Daughter, The Saturday Evening Post, and others. She is the editor in chief of Mom Egg Review.
