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dj52w37864j	Abigail L Palko	Motherhood, Declined: Negotiating Maternal Subjectivities in Irish and Caribbean Novels, 1934 - 2007	2010		.txt	text/plain	656	17	27	I argue that women writers evoke images of motherhood to envision a form of personhood and citizenship in the new, postcolonial state specifically for women, in contrast to their male counterparts, who use the trope to argue for the autonomy of the state. A careful chronological reading of twentieth-century Irish and Caribbean women's novels reveals the nuanced evolution of literary, critical, and social uses and reflections of the mother-daughter relationship that women writers from both traditions explore in their work.	cache/dj52w37864j.txt	txt/dj52w37864j.txt