Language and Identity: Sky Lee's Disappearing Moon Caf and Wayson Choy's The Jade Peony

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dc.contributor.advisorMukherjee, Arun P.
dc.contributor.authorAttrux, Monique Clarice
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-11T12:42:26Z
dc.date.available2020-05-11T12:42:26Z
dc.date.copyright2019-09
dc.date.issued2020-05-11
dc.date.updated2020-05-11T12:42:25Z
dc.degree.disciplineEnglish
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMA - Master of Arts
dc.description.abstractMany critics recognize Sky Lees "Disappearing Moon Cafe" and Wayson Choys "The Jade Peony" for breaking the silence over issues that Chinese Canadians faced in the 1990s such as racism and lack of representation. However, there has not been much discussion on Lee and Choy's exploration of language and identity. These issues are important as they continue to impact Chinese-Canadians and other diasporic communities today. The thesis explores how language in the two novels reveals that Chinese Canadians have complex and mutable identities and how notions of identity challenge the control the hegemonic powers seek to construct and restrict the Chinese identity, which in turn also restricts ideas of language. I attempt to demonstrate how these two novels resist a generic, one-dimensional view of Chinese Canadian identity and language. I conclude that Lee and Choy's novels imply that both Canadian and Chinese hegemonies influence Chinese Canadians' language and identity.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/37386
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectAsian history
dc.subject.keywordsLanguage and identity
dc.subject.keywordsHegemony
dc.subject.keywordsHimani bannerji
dc.subject.keywordsSky lee
dc.subject.keywordsDisappearing moon cafe
dc.subject.keywordsWayson choy
dc.subject.keywordsThe jade peony
dc.subject.keywordsDiaspora
dc.subject.keywordsChinese Canadian
dc.subject.keywordsCanadian literature
dc.subject.keywordsTranslation
dc.subject.keywordsCantonese
dc.subject.keywordsTaishanese
dc.subject.keywordsChinese sojourners
dc.titleLanguage and Identity: Sky Lee's Disappearing Moon Caf and Wayson Choy's The Jade Peony
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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