Price: $34.95
Page Count: 260
Publication Date: March 2019
ISBN: 978-1-77258-179-9
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
Dedications
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Into the World Within Us: Perspectives on Mothers and Travel
Relocation
Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon
Departure; Day 2 January 22, 2106, Immigration: London
Karem Roitman
Travelling the Same Road: The Parallel Journeys of Motherhood and Migration
Adventure
Nicola Waldron
Travelling Light
Li Miao Lovett
Waterfalls in the Dark
Dena Moes
Annapurna Epiphany
Jane Frank
Long Haul Flight After a Visit to the Dali Museum
Vanessa Couto Johnson
Mexican Restaurants in Deutschland
Katharyn Howd Machan
As I Travel to Key West
Identity
Charlotte Beyer
“No Ship Is Going to Sink With My Family On It”: Motherhood and Travel in Jackie French’s Children’s Novel How the Finnegans Saved the Ship
Melanie Duckworth
“Everyone wants to escape from their own lives sometimes, don’t they?”:Motherhood, the train to Edinburgh, and the work of Kathleen Jamie
Discovery
May Joseph
Voices from the Oublie
Cheryl Clark
Twilight
Laura Foley
Pomegranates in Tehran
Work
Anne Hamilton
Was it Not Lucky that the Boy was with his Mother?
Angela Castañeda
Negotiating Fieldwork and Mothering
Holly Anderson
Ink Black Sky Bright White Page
Culture
Maria Lombard
Attached Bodies: Movement, Baby-Wearing, and the Travelling Mother
Lynn Mastellotto
Kids and Food: Family Life Abroad in Recent Relocation Memoirs
Exigency
Cara Margo Delay
Backstreet to Britain: Women and Abortion Travel in Twentieth-Century Ireland
Monica Reyes
Sins of Omission: ‘Unpacking’ the Rhetoric of Sexuality within Nineteenth-Century American Mothers’ Travel-Diaries”
Janet MacLennan
When Monsters Move the Mother in You
About the Contributors
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.
