"Backdaire"Chinatown as cultural site in fae myenne ng's bone and Wayson Choy's "The jade peony"
ISSN: 0211-5913
Année de publication: 2001
Número: 43
Pages: 83-100
Type: Article
D'autres publications dans: Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses
Résumé
This essay will analyze the representations of Chinatown as a complexly multi-layered cultural space in Fae Myenne Ng’s Bone and Chinese Canadian Wayson Choy’s The Jade Peony. Chinatown has occupied an important place in Asian American writing, as the site for a reconstitution and retransmission of originary national culture, as well as a location for important cross-cultural communication. Ng and Choy formulate the borders of Chinatown in terms that suggest movement and continual shifts, signaling a critical junction in the workings of Asian American subjectivity and rearticulating the very notions of space, belonging, and heritage for Chinese Americans and Chinese Canadians. Borders are crossed in these novels on many levels, creating a complex network of relationships that help define or describe Chinatown as a unique cultural site for evolving subjectivities.
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