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Literary fantasy in contemporary Chinese diasporic women's literature : imagining home
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"This book explores the role of literary fantasy in contemporary women's diasporic narratives to unsettle hegemonic notions of home and to construct their identity. Fantasy in their works plays a s...
"This book explores the role of literary fantasy in contemporary women's diasporic narratives to unsettle hegemonic notions of home and to construct their identity. Fantasy in their works plays a subversive function of bringing the unseen culture and unheard voices of the marginalized people"--
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- Creator
- Fang Tang
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2020]
- Physical Details
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- viii, 195 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781498595469, 1498595464, 9781498595476, 9781498595476
- OCLC
- on1125297570
- Revision of author's PhD thesis: Imagining home : literary fantasy in contemporary Chinese diasporic women's literature.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- The articulation of silences : empowering ghosts and rewriting myths in Maxine Hong Kingston's The woman warrior -- Homing desire and the use of Cinderella tales in Adeline Yen Mah's Falling leaves return to their roots -- Fantasizing the mother-daughter relationship, cannibalism and posthumous narratives in Ying Chen's Ingratitude -- Crossing boundaries : the reconstruction of queering history and folktales in Larissa Lai's When fox is a thousand
Subjects
- American literature -- Chinese American authors -- History and criticism.
- American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
- Canadian literature -- Chinese authors -- History and criticism.
- Canadian literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
- Home in literature.
- Fantasy in literature.
- Chinese diaspora in literature.
- Chinese Americans -- Intellectual life.
- Chinese -- Canada -- Intellectual life.