The Healing Effects of Childhood Narrative in Wayson Choy’s The Jade Peony
In The Jade Peony, a novel made up of three juxtaposed but related childhood narratives, Wayson Choy tells afresh a part of the story of Chinese-Canadians in British Columbia. This paper analyses how Choy uses the genre of childhood narrative – moving back and forth between childhood and adulthood,...
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| Vydáno v: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2024
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| On-line přístup: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Shrnutí: | In The Jade Peony, a novel made up of three juxtaposed but related childhood narratives, Wayson Choy tells afresh a part of the story of Chinese-Canadians in British Columbia. This paper analyses how Choy uses the genre of childhood narrative – moving back and forth between childhood and adulthood, Canada and China, individual and community, past and present – to let the story produce various healing effects, enabling the tellers to reconcile themselves with their past. |
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