ONE Myths of Americanization: 3. Women's Plots: Edith Maude Eaton and Bharati Mukherjee.
This section discusses the portrayal of the Asian mother figure in novels by Asian American women writers. For women writers, the mother figure either cannot be abjected or must be recovered from abjection because the daughter needs to see the mother clearly as a subject in her own right in order to...
| Published in: | Assimilating Asians: Gendered Strategies of Authorship in Asian America pp. 90 - 139 |
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Duke University Press
2000
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