Mothering and Matrifocality in Contemporary Caribbean Literature
Author:   Leighan Renaud
Publisher:   Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   8
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9781800793811


Pages:   180
Publication Date:   21 May 2026
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Author:   Leighan Renaud
Publisher:   Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Imprint:   Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   8
Weight:   0.360kg
ISBN:  

9781800793811


ISBN 10:   1800793812
Pages:   180
Publication Date:   21 May 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements – Introduction: ‘All Is Me’: Matrifocality and Mothering in the Anglophone Caribbean - Chapter 1: ‘A Natural Aversion to Slavery’: Matrifocality and Marronage in The Book of Night Women and Unburnable – Chapter 2: ‘Men Walked’: Constructing the Matrifocal Family in Jacob Ross’ Pynter Bender – Chapter 3: Three-Twist Women in Nalo Hopkinson’s The Salt Roads - Chapter 4: ‘The end linked with the beginning and was even the beginning’: Fractal Poetics in Erna Brodber’s Nothing’s Mat – Chapter 5: Magic, Matrilineage, and the Grandmother in The Star Side of Bird Hill and When We Were Birds – Conclusion – Bibliography - Index

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Leighan Renaud is Lecturer in Caribbean Literatures and Cultures at the University of Bristol. She completed her PhD in English at the University of Leicester 2018. Her current research focuses on oral folk traditions in the Eastern Caribbean. Mothering and Matrifocality is her first monograph.

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