"Mother-weights" and lost fathers: parents in South Asian American literature

That parent-child relationships should play a significant role within South Asian American literature is perhaps no surprise, since this is crucial material for any writer. But the particular forms they so often take – a dysfunctional mother-daughter dynamic, leading to the search for maternal surro...

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Main Author: Maxey, Ruth
Format: Article
Published: Routledge 2012
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/31792/