“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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vu, Dorothy
Other Authors: Blair, Jennifer
Language:en
Published: 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