Mothering and Matrifocality in Contemporary Caribbean Literature
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- ISBN 9781800793811
- Weight: 360g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 25 May 2026
- Publisher: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book examines representations of mothering and matrifocality in twenty-first-century Caribbean fiction. Through an analysis of several contemporary novels from Anglophone Caribbean writers, this study rejects the historic problematisation of matrifocality (mother-centeredness) as an alternative to the nuclear family structure by positioning it instead as a vital and capacious building block of Caribbean worlds. In this book, the author also explores literary portrayals of mothering (the care work carried out by mothers, othermothers, grandmothers and more) that resist stereotypical characterisation of Caribbean mother-figures. The author situates her literary analysis alongside debates from sociology, anthropology and history, taking a multidisciplinary approach to her investigation of contemporary Caribbean novels that explores an array of fictional worlds built upon a matrifocal core, and considers how these worlds resist patriarchal and Eurocentric normativity.
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.
