ISBN:
9781666902075
Language:
English
Pages:
205 Seiten
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.48414
Keywords:
Motherhood
Abstract:
Reclaiming Migrant Motherhood takes a critical look at the representations and lived experiences of migrant, refugee, and otherwise displaced mothers. This volume explores literature, film, and original ethnographic research about migrant motherhood through theoretical lenses including postcolonial theory, feminism, and critical refugee studies.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Representations of Displacement -- "We were born from beauty" -- Domesticating Displacement, Encounters with Refugee Mothers -- Tracing the Impacts of War in Nadifa Mohamed's The Orchard of Lost Souls -- Writing about My Mother -- The Ghost Mother in Two Vietnamese American Refugee Novels -- Constructions of Identity and Belonging -- Embroidering Intergenerational Threads of a Roza -- Mothering on Enemy Land -- Guiding, Shaping, and Resisting -- Iraqi Mothers, Diasporic Sons -- (Un)inhabitable "homes" for mothers and daughters -- Index -- About the Contributors.
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
