Acknowledgments

Introduction: Facets of Mothers and Daughters

Dannabang Kuwabong, Janet MacLennan, and Dorsía Smith Silva

I. MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS IN A CREATIVE SPACE

Embroidery

Dorsía Smith Silva

Directions

Dorsía Smith Silva

The Wedding Collection

Laurie Kruk

My Mother’s Linens

Renee Norman



Costas (Or, If You Prefer, a Tale of Two Cafés)

Priya Parrotta Natarajan

Gardens

Renee Norman

Painting through Ruptured Maternal Identity

Batya Weinbaum

Sitting with My Mother’s Bones

Charlotte Henay

Daughters of the Dust

Dorsía Smith Silva

II. MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS IN OUR MEMORY

Across the Divide: Contemporary Anglo American Feminist Theory on the Mother-Daughter Relationship

Andrea O’Reilly

Glow

Dorsía Smith Silva

Isthmus

Donna Sharkey

Grandma’s Husband: Parenting with My Mother

Cheryl Chaffin

For the Child

Dorsía Smith Silva

The Worst Is Not the Worst: Memories of Motherhood and Multiple Miscarriages Alma Simounet-Bey

The Facsimile of Existence: Mothers and Daughters in Perpetual Reproduction of Identity and Image

Mary Bronstein

Researching Death

Renee Norman

Exploring Pantsuit Nation: A Message for Our Daughters

Dorsía Smith Silva

III. MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS IN LITERATURE

Daughter of the Disappeared or Hija de la República: Maternal Imagery, Daughterly Identity, and Argentina’s “Dirty War” in Carolina de Robertis’s Perla

Cristina Herrera

Her Mother’s Ashes: South Asian Daughters Reimagining the Mother to Reimagine the Self in Diasporic Locations

Dannabang Kuwabong

Lives of Mothers and Daughters in Brazil and Canada: The Mother’s Artistic Influence as Seen by Four Women Writers

Lidiane Cunha

“Their Mother Was Waiting for Her”: Mother-Daughter Relations and Irish Identity in Deirdre Madden’s One By One in the Darkness

Charlotte Beyer

About the Contributors

Dannabang Kuwabong is a Professor in the Department of English, University of Puerto Rico,
Rio Piedras Campus, San Juan. His work has appeared in several journals, including the
Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community; Canadian Woman Studies les cahiers des la femme; ARIEL: A Review of Internal English Literature; La Torre; Sargasso, and The Caribbean Writer.

Janet MacLennan is a Professor of Communication Studies in the Department of English (Humanities) of the University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras, San Juan. In her teaching and publishing she uses a narrative perspective to understand human communication, work that has drawn her into the field of medical humanities.

Dorsía Smith Silva is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. She is the co-editor of Caribbean without Borders: Caribbean Literature, Language, and Culture (2008), Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Literature and Culture (2010), and Critical and Feminist Perspectives on Caribbean Mothering (2013), and editor of Latina/Chicana Mothering (2011). She is the co-editor of Mothers, Mothering, and Globalization (2017) and Travellin’ Mama (2017).