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Natalie Carnes
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April 2020
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Natalie Carnes
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Published
April 2020
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A meditation on the conversions, betrayals, and divine revelations of motherhood.
What if Augustine's Confessions had been written not by a man, but by a mother? How might her tales of desire, temptation, and transformation differ from his? In this memoir, Natalie Carnes describes giving birth to a daughter and beginning a story of conversion strikingly unlike Augustine's--even as his journey becomes a surprising companion to her own.
The challenges Carnes recounts will be familiar to many parents. She wonders what and how much she should ask her daughter to suffer in resisting racism, patriarchy, and injustice. She wrestles with an impulse to compel her child to flourish, and reflects on what this desire reveals about human freedom. She negotiates the conflicting demands of a religiously divided home, a working motherhood, and a variety of social expectations, and traces the hopes and anxieties such negotiations expose. The demands of motherhood continually open for her new modes of reflection about deep Christian commitments and age-old human questions.
Addressing first her child and then her God, Carnes narrates how a child she once held within her body grows increasingly separate, provoking painful but generative change. Having given birth, she finds that she herself is reborn.
Author
Natalie Carnes
Book Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Published
April 2020
Weight
364g
Dimensions
138 x 219 x 26 mm
ISBN
9781503608313
ISBN-10
150360831X
Eden Code
5082707
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Author/Creator: Natalie Carnes
ISBN: 9781503608313
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date: April 2020
Weight: 364g
Dimensions: 138 x 219 x 26 mm
Eden Code: 5082707