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
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.
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