Mothering across Languages and Cultures in Ying Chen's Letters to Her Children
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12247194 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eglė Kač kutė (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 59-74 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women a Cultural Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0957-4042 • E-ISSN: 1470-1367 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09574042.2018.1425536 |
| OpenAlex | W2794940006 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
Due to intensifying global mobility, increasing numbers of women find 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
Chen · Consciousness · Diaspora · Epistemology · Linguistics · Multilingualism · Slowness · Sociology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |