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Toward the North : stories by Chinese Canadian writers / edited by Hua Laura Wu, Xueqing Xu, Corinne Bieman Davies.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wu, Hua Laura, 1952-
- Series:
- Inanna poetry & fiction series.
- Inanna poetry & fiction series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese--Canada--Fiction.
- Chinese.
- Canadian fiction--21st century.
- Canadian fiction.
- Canadian fiction--Chinese authors.
- Short stories, Canadian--21st century.
- Short stories, Canadian.
- Immigrants--Canada--Fiction.
- Immigrants.
- Short stories, Chinese--Translations into English.
- Short stories, Chinese.
- Canada--Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
- Canada.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 291 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto, Ontario : Inanna Publications and Education Inc., [2018]
- Summary:
- Toward the North is the first anthology of thirteen short fiction pieces written and translated by Chinese-Canadian writers during the last two decades, each of which depicts the contemporary lives of new Chinese immigrants to Canada, and illustrates newcomers' perspectives of multicultural Canada. The theme of the anthology is Chinese transnational and cross-cultural life experience. A fundamental concern shared by most of the authors is to redefine their characters' cultural identity in their acculturation across times and space. In these stories, the exploration of the relationship between Chinese immigrants and Canadians extends beyond "yellow"/"white" binary model, revealing interactions between the Chinese and other ethnic communities. Struggles between cultural assimilation and resistance are vividly and captivatedly portrayed. The authors' approaches to their characters' life experience of culture's in-between displays an intriguing diversity both in content and in styles.
- Notes:
- "Originally written in Chinese, these twelve stories have been translated into English"--Page 1.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-77133-568-8
- 1-77133-566-1
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