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The book titled Migrant Masculinities in Women’s Writing examines the representation of masculinities in contemporary texts written by women who have immigrated into France or Canada from a range of geographical spaces
Exploring works by Léonora Miano (Cameroon), Fatou Diome (Senegal), Assia Djebar, Malika Mokeddem (Algeria), Ananda Devi (Mauritius), Ying Chen (China) and Kim Thúy (Vietnam), this study charts the extent to which migration generates new ways of understanding and writing masculinities. It draws on diverse theoretical perspectives, including postcolonial theory, affect theory and critical race theory, while bringing visibility to the many women across various historical and geographical terrains who write about (im)migration and the impact on men, even as these women, too, acquire a different position in the new society.
Ashwiny comments: “I wrote this book to help us think through the changes that operate in men and women as they migrate from a range of geographical spaces to a country which has different values. The goal was to highlight the issues faced by migrants (and refugees) and the ways in which this enables us to reconsider migrant men as individuals who are vulnerable and subjected to racism, discrimination, a sense of non-belonging and face their vulnerability. Examining women’s writing for this purpose sheds light on the ways in which women also understand masculinities and empowers them to seek egalitarian relationships in various ways.”
About Dr Ashwiny O. Kistnareddy
Ashwiny is Lucy’s Director of Studies in MML and Lecturer at the MMLL faculty. She is also College Tutor and Bye-Fellow.
She lectures on the FR6 module and teaches Part II translation for the MMLL faculty. Her research interests are in the fields of migration, refugee studies, postcolonial studies and contemporary narratives. She is particularly interested in race, gender and their intersections with languages. Her first monograph, Locating Hybridity, was published in 2015. Her other forthcoming monographs are: Refugee Afterlives (Liverpool University Press, 2022), Refuge: Children and Human Rights Literature (2024) and Refugee Childhoods: Narratives of Survival (SUNY Press).
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