Kackute, Egle
(2018)
Mothering across Languages and Cultures in Ying
Chen's Letters to Her Children.
Women: A Cultural Review, 29 (1).
pp. 59-74.
ISSN 0957-4042
Abstract
Due to intensifying global mobility, increasing numbers of women
fi
nd themselves
mothering in countries that are linguistically and culturally foreign to them. They must deal
with issues related to multilingualism, shifting identities and belonging. The essays
La
Lenteur des montagnes
(
The Slowness of the Mountains
, 2014) and
‘
Lettre
d
’
Umbertide
’
(
‘
Letter from Umbertide
’
, 2004) by the Chinese-born Canadian author
Ying Chen provide a vivid example. Using recent research on contemporary Asian
women
’
s writing in the diaspora and notions of
écriture migrante
(
‘
migrant writing
’
)
as well as nomadic consciousness as a framework, this article explores how Chen
’
s essays
envision what it means and feels like to be a mother of Chinese origin in contemporary
Canada. This work proffers wider understandings of the condition of migrant mothering
as it touches on critical debates around literatures of mobility.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Additional Information: |
The version of Record of this manuscript has been published and is
available in Women: A Cultural Review, 29 Mar 2018,
https://doi.org/10.1080/09574042.2018.1425536 |
| Keywords: |
migration; mobility; motherhood; twenty-first-century women’s writing; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures > French |
| Item ID: |
10303 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.1080/09574042.2018.1425536 |
| Depositing User: |
Egle Kackute
|
| Date Deposited: |
10 Dec 2018 17:41 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Women: A Cultural Review |
| Publisher: |
Taylor & Francis |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| URI: |
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| Use Licence: |
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