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

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Maxey, Ruth
Format:	Article
Published:	Routledge 2012
Subjects:	South Asian American literature fictions of matrilineage matrophobia parenthood
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/31792/

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