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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.
List of contents
Introduction: Displaced Mothers and the Borders They Must Cross, Maria D. Lombard
Part One: Representations of Displacement
Chapter One: "We were born from beauty": Motherly Aesthetics and Poetics of Displacement in Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Quynh H. Vo
Chapter Two: Domesticating Displacement, Encounters with Refugee Mothers, Adrianne Kalfopoulou
Chapter Three: Tracing the Impacts of War in Nadifa Mohamed's The Orchard of Lost Souls, Alison Graham Bertolini
Chapter Four: Writing about My Mother: Representations of Alliances between Mothers and Daughters in Young Adult (YA) Refugee Literature, Stella Mililli
Chapter Five: The Ghost Mother in Two Vietnamese American Refugee Novels: A Critical Refugee Analysis, Janet J. Graham
Part Two: Constructions of Identity and Belonging
Chapter Six: Embroidering Intergenerational Threads of a Roza: Stitching Together Women's Stories and Solidarity in the Fabric of Diasporic Arab American Fiction, Leila Moayeri Pazargadi
Chapter Seven: Mothering on Enemy Land: An Analysis of Japanese Picture Brides' Motherhood in Julie Otsuka's The Buddha in the Attic, Kaori Mori Want
Chapter Eight: Guiding, Shaping and Resisting: Refugee Mothers' Educational Strategies as They Navigate 'Unsettlement', Lucy Hunt
Chapter Nine: Iraqi Mothers, Diasporic Sons: Narrative Patterns of Identity and Belonging in Baghdad Twist, Lamees Al Ethari
Chapter Ten: (Un)Inhabitable 'Homes' for Mothers and Daughters: The Transmission of Memories of 'Home' in Sri Lankan Tamil Diasporic Women's Writing, Sabreena Niles
About the author
Maria D. Lombard is assistant professor in residence at Northwestern University in Qatar.
