This study aims to analyze the representation of motherhood in two works by two contemporary female authors: Une femme, a major work by Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux, and the novel Mãn, by Canadian-Vietnamese author Kim Thúy. The two novels share a common theme of motherhood and describe the close relationship between mother and daughter. Although the stories are based on the experiences of the two mothers, they are narrated by the daughters. The authors' approach to the theme is also similar in that they are strongly social realist, even more explicitly in the case of Ernaux. Our aim has been to understand motherhood and the relationship between mother and daughter from a feminist perspective that shows how traditional notions of gender are conveyed in these works and how the author reflects them in the text. To do that, our interpretation is based on a feminist literary theory that also uses phenomenology as a method to understand the reader-response perspective.

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