Evelyn Lau’s Other Women: Speaking Silence
In her autobiographical novella, Chinese Canadian Evelyn Lau expresses the uncertainties of a teenage protagonist whose choices conflict with family traditions. The narrative shifts from first to third person, thus undermining the assumption of a stable presence behind the narrated discourse. Multip...
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| 發表在: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
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| 格式: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| 語言: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2024
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| 在線閱讀: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| 總結: | In her autobiographical novella, Chinese Canadian Evelyn Lau expresses the uncertainties of a teenage protagonist whose choices conflict with family traditions. The narrative shifts from first to third person, thus undermining the assumption of a stable presence behind the narrated discourse. Multiple strategies of displacement suggest that identity is founded on gaps and ruptures. |
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