The Figurative Void: On Absent Mother Narratives in East Asian American LiteratureIn fiction and non
The Figurative Void: On Absent Mother Narratives in East Asian American LiteratureIn fiction and nonfiction, Asian American women writers explore the many layers of loss. Across genres, readers can observe an overlapping sentiment between writing hypothetically about a departed mother and recounting firsthand experiences. In The Melancholy of Race (2000), literary and race scholar Anne Anlin Cheng links the condition of melancholia, which “alludes not to the loss per se but to the entangled relationship with loss,” to our identities as minority subjects. The connections we have to our parents and our cultural identity are obviously complex and varied, which makes losing them that much more painful. -- source link
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