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Lim, Huai-Yang.

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Representations of class identity in Chinese Canadian literature.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Representations of class identity in Chinese Canadian literature./
作者:	Lim, Huai-Yang.
面頁冊數:	256 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-10, Section: A, page: 3654.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-10A.
標題:	Literature, Canadian (English). -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NR08680
ISBN:	0494086807

Representations of class identity in Chinese Canadian literature.
Lim, Huai-Yang.

Representations of class identity in Chinese Canadian literature. - 256 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-10, Section: A, page: 3654.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta (Canada), 2005.

In their considerations of how Chinese Canadian authors represent what it means to be Chinese Canadian, critics have examined how racial, ethnic, and gender markers inform characters' identities in these texts, but they have not extensively considered class as an identity marker. My analysis of Denise Chong's The Concubine's Children, Sky Lee's Disappearing Moon Cafe, Wayson Choy's Paper Shadows: a Chinatown Childhood and The Jade Peony, Yuen Cheung Yip's The Tears of Chinese Immigrants, Fred Wah's Diamond Grill, and Paul Yee's Breakaway explores how various configurations of class identity intersect with other identity markers, such as race, and inform characters' understandings of themselves as Chinese Canadians. Focusing on how these texts represent characters' class identities in the time period between 1923 and 1967, I will consider how "Chinese Canadianness" intersects with shared and contested ideas of class identity that manifest in the following ways: the memories their characters construct in relation to their experiences and shared cultural heritage; their characters' bodily and material manifestations of identity; the ways in which the workplace and its activities figure into their characters' identities; and the spaces that their characters inhabit, define, and use.

ISBN: 0494086807Subjects--Topical Terms:

1022372
Literature, Canadian (English).

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