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portada Mothering Care in the Contemporary Novel. Unknown Others, Imaginative Labour and the Ethics of Care
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Collection
Contemporary Cultural Studies in Illness, Health and Medicine
Year
2026
Language
English
Pages
200
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
9x6 cm
ISBN13
9781399561174

Mothering Care in the Contemporary Novel. Unknown Others, Imaginative Labour and the Ethics of Care

Michelle Chiang (Author) · Edinburgh University Press · Hardcover

Mothering Care in the Contemporary Novel. Unknown Others, Imaginative Labour and the Ethics of Care - Michelle Chiang

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Synopsis "Mothering Care in the Contemporary Novel. Unknown Others, Imaginative Labour and the Ethics of Care"

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.

Explores contemporary depictions of less-than-adequate mothers to show how caring does not rest on empathy but on other-centredness.

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