Queer Mother Memoir
Experiments in Life/Narrative
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Beschreibung
Queer Mother Memoir: Experiments in Life/Narrative curates an archive of memoirs, published 1997 to the present, in order to define and complicate “queer mother memoir” as an emergent literary genre. Through careful readings of life narratives, including her own, Silbergleid offers these radical autotheoretical texts as a challenge to scholarship that has yet to critically examine, much less embrace, queer motherhood.
“A beautifully crafted study of life and narrative outside of heteropatriarchy. Robin Silbergleid deftly weaves together textual research, interdisciplinary theorizing, and personal reflection in the first book-length study of queer mother memoirs, showing how they theorize radical notions of reproduction, gender, and family.”
—Heather Hewett, SUNY-New Paltz, USA
“QMM is autotheory at its best. Anyone interested in lived and literary experimentations in motherhood and family, as well as queer, genre, and feminist theory, must read this mind-blowing book.”
—Katherine Mack, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA
“In this groundbreaking literary study, Robin Silbergleid unpacks the complexity of queer mothering experiences. . . The result is a canon-mapping study that generously imagines the potential of inclusively embracing and recognizing maternal identities through the process of telling (and listening to!) different narratives about family building.”
—Abby Palko, Colgate University, USA
“In this genre-defining book, Robin Silbergleid, at turns erudite and tender, makes a compelling case for turning our intersectional feminist attention to ‘queer mother memoirs.’ . . . Generous and whip-smart, witty and vulnerable, cerebral and embodied, Queer Mother Memoir testifies to the strength, resilience, and power of imagining one’s life differently, then realizing it.”
—Kristen Renzi, Xavier University, USA
Robin Silbergleid is Professor of English at Michigan State University, USA. She is the author of multiple books, including the memoir Texas Girl and the poetry collection The Baby Book, as well as co-editor of Reading and Writing Experimental Texts: Critical Innovations and Infertilities, A Curation.
Queer Mother Memoir: Experiments in Life/Narrative curates an archive of memoirs, published 1997 to the present, in order to define and complicate “queer mother memoir” as an emergent literary genre. Through careful readings of life narratives, including her own, Silbergleid offers these radical autotheoretical texts as a challenge to scholarship that has yet to critically examine, much less embrace, queer motherhood.
Contributes to conversations within motherhood studies, feminist and queer theory, narrative theory, and memoir studies Both explores and enacts the ways that literary experimentation accompanies lived experimentation Focused on a range of texts that seek to define and complicate “queer mother memoir” as an emergent literary genre
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Robin Silbergleid
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“Queer Mother Memoir: Experiments in Life/Narrative is a beautifully crafted study of life and narrative outside of heteropatriarchy. Robin Silbergleid deftly weaves together textual research, interdisciplinary theorizing, and personal reflection in the first book-length study of queer mother memoirs, showing how they theorize radical notions of reproduction, gender, and family. In elegant and insightful prose, she illuminates the many ways memoir can enable readers to reimagine the often difficult yet deeply rewarding work of caregiving and motherhood.” (Heather Hewett, Professor, SUNY-New Paltz, USA)
“In this genre-defining book, Robin Silbergleid, at turns erudite and tender, makes a compelling case for turning our intersectional feminist attention to "queer mother memoirs": contemporary texts written by queer-identified women, trans folx, and non-binary individuals about their experiences of conception, pregnancy, infertility, and mothering…. By theorizing these stories of queer mothering, Silbergleid demonstrates how attentive engagement with queer family building exposes the flimsy fiction of the standard hetero-reproductive story for the house of cards it is. But she also, more radically, shores up for readers a menu of possibilities, of pathways—in Silbergleid’s terms, “experiments”—that have both paved the way for her own queer motherhood journey and will, no doubt, beckon more of us along that path with her. Generous and whip-smart, witty and vulnerable, cerebral and embodied, Queer Mother Memoir testifies to the strength, resilience, and power of imagining one’s life differently, then realizing it.” (Kristen Renzi, Professor, Xavier University, USA)
“In this groundbreaking literary study, Robin Silbergleid unpacks the complexity of queer mothering experiences through her insightful, nuanced read of the archive of queer mother memoirs she has curated to write into being her understanding of and appreciation for the queer mother. In the process, Silbergleid makes a crucial, field-expanding contribution to Motherhood Studies, undertaking the important cultural work of situating the contributions of the queer mother memoir to deeper, more nuanced understandings of the nature of family. This analysis grapples with the fundamental questions of who can be a mother and what does it mean to undertake maternal work, and by putting authors from seemingly disparate positionalities into conversation with each other, highlighting the maternal commitments each has made. The result is a canon-mapping study that generously imagines the potential of inclusively embracing and recognizing maternal identities through the process of telling (and listening to!) different narratives about family building.” (Abby Palko, Colgate University, USA)
“I devoured this book! Like the queer mother memoirs that it analyzes, Queer Mother Memoir: Experiments in Life/Narrative is groundbreaking in form and argument, imagining new ways of conceiving, doing, and writing motherhood. Interspersing accounts of Silbergleid's personal experience of queer mothering with critical readings of the archive of queer mother memoirs that she curated, QMM is autotheory at its best. Anyone interested in lived and literary experimentations in motherhood and family, as well as queer, genre, and feminist theory, must read this mind-blowing book.” (Katherine Mack, Professor, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA)
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