“Maternal Melancholia”: Reading Diasporic Asian Canadian Motherwork in the Fictions of Kerri Sakamoto, Hiromi Goto, and Madeleine Thien
What does it mean for an immigrant to be a “good” mother? Asian immigrants in Canada experience pressures to assimilate to a “normal,” homogenous ideal of Canadian culture—to erase aspects of their own cultural identity as well as their diasporic history. Asian mothers specifically are subject to mo...
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Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31802 http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-6707 |