{"product_id":"otherworldly-mothering-the-maternal-grammar-of-black-womens-writing-1970-1990-hardcover","title":"Otherworldly Mothering: The Maternal Grammar of Black Women's Writing, 1970-1990 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarika Ceschia\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOtherworldly Mothering\u003c\/i\u003e argues that literary works by Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Paule Marshall, Audre Lorde, and Toni Cade Bambara reimagine subjectivity in processual and relational terms through a rewriting of maternal praxis, a technique that unveils the historical continuities between antebellum and neoliberal America. By refiguring materials drawn from the tradition of slave narratives, Black women's literature of the 1970s and 1980s often conjures maternal otherworlds where it is possible to engage alternative modes of being. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn conversation with the work of Hortense Spillers, Sylvia Wynter, and Saidiya Hartman, Marika Ceschia analyzes how Black women writers find in the maternal a means of creatively reenvisioning the figure of the human. Morrison's \u003ci\u003eSong of Solomon, \u003c\/i\u003e Naylor's \u003ci\u003eLinden Hills, \u003c\/i\u003e Marshall's \u003ci\u003ePraisesong for the Widow, \u003c\/i\u003e Lorde's \u003ci\u003eZami, \u003c\/i\u003e and Bambara's \u003ci\u003eThe Salt Eaters\u003c\/i\u003e each change the strictures that dictate how the human is performed. As these texts show, maternal praxis can have a transformative ontological effect: confronting the toll exerted by centuries of racial violence, these writers reclaim the maternal as a site of subject formation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eOtherworldly Mothering\u003c\/i\u003e reassesses canonical works of twentieth-century Black women's literature alongside theoretical debates around the ontology of the human, antiblackness, and Black motherhood. Ceschia proposes a reappraisal of maternal praxis that challenges neoliberal discourse and questions recent critical turns toward Afropessimism and posthumanism.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarika Ceschia\u003c\/b\u003e is a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. She holds a PhD in African American literature from the University of Leeds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 270\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 09, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51751174865184,"sku":"9780807182499","price":72.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/95551de55c0f58c3def1c99b3afa7991.webp?v=1779966430","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/otherworldly-mothering-the-maternal-grammar-of-black-womens-writing-1970-1990-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}