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Reading Mary Alongside Indian Surrogate Mothers

Violent Love, Oppressive Liberation, and Infancy Narratives [Hardback]

by Sharon Jacob

Author
Sharon Jacob
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Published
August 2015

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This book attempts to construct the character of Mary found in the infancy narratives through the lived experiences of Indian surrogate mothers living in contemporary India today. The motherhood performed by these mothers helps us see Mary and her choice to become a mother to Jesus in a more complex and ambiguous light. The character of Mary has often been cast as that of either an empowered mother or a victimized woman. This book complicates her character by reading the infancy narratives in conjunction with postcolonial theory, gender and sexuality studies, and race/whiteness theories. The author constructs a maternal figure who is both a hero and a victim, performing a maternal love that at once liberates and oppresses her.