Memory/Memorial
As a writer who comes from a confluence of three different cultures, Chinese, English and Portuguese, I have always been confronted by the question of location. From where do I speak or how do I make myself heard? This struggle, I have discovered, is in fact a hereditary one. To explain what I mean...
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| Formaat: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
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Anglophonia Caliban/Sigma
2024
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| Online toegang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Samenvatting: | As a writer who comes from a confluence of three different cultures, Chinese, English and Portuguese, I have always been confronted by the question of location. From where do I speak or how do I make myself heard? This struggle, I have discovered, is in fact a hereditary one. To explain what I mean here, I must read you a letter. Here is my father, writing in 1957, seeking a job which I, with my radical education, would obviously not endorse. But that’s beside the point for the moment.On the... |
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