Kackute, Egle (2018) Mothering in the Stepmother Tongue: Maternal Subjectivity and Linguistic Practice in Nancy Huston’s Autobiographical Non-Fiction. Nottingham French Studies, 57 (3). pp. 274-285. ISSN 0029-4586

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Abstract

Exile and troubled motherhood are two closely intertwined themes thatdominate Nancy Huston’sœuvre. Every collection of Huston’s non-fiction writingscontains at least one essay reflecting on the link between her mother’s departurefrom the family home in childhood and her own exile, and her novels are equallypreoccupied with such themes. The protagonist of the novelLa Virevolte, a motherof two, is caught in an agonizingly painful conflict between family life and aninternational career as a dancer, and shefinally opts for leaving the former for thesake of the latter. The novelL’Empreinte de l’angefeatures the story of a femaleGerman character who relocates to France at the end of the 1950s, where shemarries a Frenchflautist and becomes a mother shortly after that. Her love affairwith a Hungarian instrument maker of Jewish origin draws her into a double life thathas fatal consequences for her son

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	translingual writing; translingual mothering; migrant motherhood; maternal subjectivity; migration; mother tongue;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Arts & Humanities > School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures > French
Item ID:	11072
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.3366/nfs.2018.0224
Depositing User:	Egle Kackute
Date Deposited:	23 Sep 2019 11:17
Journal or Publication Title:	Nottingham French Studies
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
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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