Revision of author's PhD thesis: Imagining home : literary fantasy in contemporary Chinese diasporic women's literature. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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