ISBN:
9780773558076
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (223 pages)
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DDC:
305
Keywords:
Group identity
;
Group identity
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Investigating the conditions that shape Chinese Canadian identities from various historical, social, and literary perspectives.
Abstract:
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Notes about Chinese Romanization -- Introduction: Interdiciplinary Approaches to Transcultural Negotiations of Chinese Canadian Identities -- Part one - Migrant Transcultural Negotiations -- 1 The Rise and Fall of the Cantonese Pacific, 1850-1950 -- 2 Transcultural Poetics: Hong Kong Canadian Identities in Yasi's Works -- 3 Psychogeography and Cultural Negotiation in the Poetic Imagination of Hong Kong Canadian Identity -- Part two - Negotiating Success and Failure -- 4 Identities in Public: Cultural Translation in Jan Wong's Out of the Blue -- 5 Migration, Gender Relations, and the Negotiation of Identity among Chinese Professional Immigrant Women in Canada -- 6 Group Boundaries and Immigrant Income -- Part three - Negotiating Adaptation, Belonging, and Co-construction -- 7 Ethnic Identity and the Cultural Translation of the Marketplace: The Supermarket Exemplar -- 8 Denaturalizing Canadian Literature: Fred Wah and Recapitulation -- 9 The Dynamics of Cultural Identity of Chinese in Toronto, 1960s-2010s -- Conclusion: Future Directions for the Study of Chinese Canadian Identities -- Contributors -- Index.
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