The Great Miracle… As Yet

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  • Paquita Suárez Coalla The City University of New York - Estados Unidos

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18002/cg.v0i12.4797

Keywords:

(co)motherhood, emigration, class, race, conciliation

Abstract

This text proposes a personal reflection on the multiple contradictions and challenges that the institution and the experience of motherhood pose to women, considering a very specific context: the American academy, to which I arrived as a (privileged) immigrant from Spain. If the practice of co-motherhood appears in certain contexts as a guarantee of solidarity among women, other factors such as race, class or purely individual circumstances modulate our lives as women, workers and mothers. In any case, in our developed and hyper-competitive societies, it is only thanks to formal or informal networks of support between women and a clear will on the part of our partners that allows us to live the experience of motherhood as a great miracle.

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Author Biography

Paquita Suárez Coalla, The City University of New York - Estados Unidos

Doctora en Literatura Española y Latinoamericana, escritora, activista cultural, profesora de español y literatura en la Universidad de la Ciudad de Nueva York (BMCC, CUNY). Cofundadora y vicepresidenta de LART (Latino Artists Round Table). Autora de obras como: “Para que no se me olvide” / So I Won’t Forget (Campana: 2007); “El día que nos llevaron al cine” (Campana: 2011); “Literatura con acento” (Campana: 2014). Editora de la antología de escritor@s latin@s de Nueva York: “Aquí me tocó escribir” (Trabe: 2006) y “Primeramente Dios, yo la alivio: Testimonios de parteras salvadoreñas de Ciudad Barrios” (New York: Campana, 2011). Ha publicado numerosos artículos como crítica literaria. Ha trabajado un año como profesora invitada en la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México. Vive en Nueva York desde 1994.

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Published

2017-06-24

How to Cite

Suárez Coalla, P. (2017) “The Great Miracle… As Yet”, Cuestiones de género: de la igualdad y la diferencia, (12), pp. 401–415. doi: 10.18002/cg.v0i12.4797.

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