Abstract

This article seeks to examine the representation of othermothering and sisterhood in Chinese American fiction. Effort is made to investigate the different forms of othermothering and sisterhood in the selected mother-daughter narrative texts, with particular focus on how women, when out of “her mother’s house”, empower each other and collaboratively preserve the matrilineal heritage and how women’s identity negotiation is facilitated by such matrilineal heritage in diverse socio-cultural contexts.

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