Mothering Care in the Contemporary Novel
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Author_Michelle Chiang
care
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critical medical humanities
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forthcoming
imagination
labour
motherhood
otherness
phenomenology
relationality
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- ISBN 9781399561174
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Oct 2026
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Examining contemporary depictions of less-than-adequate mothers, Michelle Chiang reveals how care relations are fundamentally othering experiences, even between a mother and a child. Employing maternal theory and phenomenological philosophy as lenses to analyse the selected novels, Chiang offers an account of the imaginative labour that goes into caring for an other who is not entirely knowable. She argues that carers must imaginatively labour to confront the limits of their knowledge in care relations. When carers fail to exercise a dynamic imagination to confront the limits of their knowledge, they risk losing sight of the cared-for as an individual inhabiting time orientations and contextual spaces that might differ from theirs. In doing so, care may collapse into a search for certainty and control, which almost always entails the violence of coercion.
Michelle Chiang is Assistant Professor of English at Nanyang Technological University where she coordinates the Medical Humanities Research Cluster and co-leads the Medical Humanities Curriculum Workgroup at Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine. She is the author of Beckett’s Intuitive Spectator: Me to Play (2018) and her work has appeared in The Lancet, Qualitative Health Research and the Journal of Medical Humanities.
