Secrets and Lies, Stories and Truth in Wayson Choy’s Paper Shadows
After briefly exposing the links between biography, fiction and autobiography in Wayson Choy’s work, this paper analyzes how the author reasserts in his autobiography, Paper Shadows, the premise that underlies his novel about the Chinese-Canadian community, The Jade Peony: that the truth about one’s...
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| Publicado en: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2024
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| Acceso en liña: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | After briefly exposing the links between biography, fiction and autobiography in Wayson Choy’s work, this paper analyzes how the author reasserts in his autobiography, Paper Shadows, the premise that underlies his novel about the Chinese-Canadian community, The Jade Peony: that the truth about one’s history, a necessary element to personal balance and development in adult life, is best searched for not in hard facts but in narratives of fictive status, namely stories of ghosts, mysteries and secrets kept. |
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