Kackute, Egle (2019) Relational Aspects of Migrant Mothering in Nathacha Appanah’s La Noce d’Anna and Ying Chen’s La Lenteur des montagnes. Crossways Journal, 3 (1). ISSN 2560-6425

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Abstract

Narratives of migrant mothering are a small but distinct feature of the dynamic landscape of contemporary literatures of mobility and the growing repertoire of narratives of mothering in French. i However, they are not included in Gill Rye’s ground - breaking study Narratives of Mothering (2009) which discusses a wide range of mo thering experiences represented from the mothers’ point of view in contemporary women’s writing in France. This notable absence is arguably due to two reasons – the time period and the geographical space covered by the study. Rye’s book focuses on “mothers ’ own narratives of mothering, in writing by women in France [...] from the early 1990s through to the first years of the twenty - first century” (15). N arratives of migrant mothering emerge as a theme at the turn of the twenty - first century, especially in its second decade, and in contemporary women’s writing in French rather than in France only . These literatures as well as their creators inhabit culturally and geographically expanded spaces spanning across several countries, often even continents, cultures, and languages.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	motherhood; migration; transcultural identity;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Arts & Humanities > School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures > French
Item ID:	11071
Depositing User:	Egle Kackute
Date Deposited:	23 Sep 2019 13:33
Journal or Publication Title:	Crossways Journal
Publisher:	Guelph Ontario
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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