Literary 'bone collectors': recovering the voices of an older generation of Chinese women in British Columbia (1923-1967) in works by Wayson Choy, SKY Lee, and Denise Chong

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dc.contributor.authorZhang, Ruoxi
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science
dc.contributor.supervisorGalway, Elizabeth
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-23T20:53:24Z
dc.date.available2024-01-23T20:53:24Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.degree.levelPh.D
dc.description.abstractDrawing from theories of Chinese indigenous psychology, subjective well-being, and cultural identity, this study examines the representations of Chinese women immigrants in four texts by Wayson Choy, SKY Lee, and Denise Chong. These women lived through the Canadian Chinese-exclusion period of 1923-1947, and many witnessed the introduction of the points-based system in 1967. Situating my examination in the social, historical, and cultural contexts of the multiple worlds where they lived, I suggest that through these characters, who use their own language/dialect to tell their own stories and demonstrate their own values, these texts literally and figuratively give this generation of women a voice and present them as complex humans. In this way, the authors are actually ‘bone collectors’; they excavate neglected aspects of Canadian history to find the ‘bones’ of their elders and attempt to piece these together, while being aware that they are not fully capable of doing so.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/6662
dc.language.isoen
dc.proquest.subject0342
dc.proquest.subject0453
dc.proquest.subject0352
dc.proquestyesYes
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of English
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of English
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Science
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science)
dc.subjectChinese women immigrants
dc.subjectChinese exclusion period
dc.subjectChinese-Canadian literature
dc.subjectChinese community
dc.subjectWayson Choy
dc.subjectSKY Lee
dc.subjectDenise Chong
dc.subject.lcshChinese--British Columbia--History--20th century--Fiction
dc.subject.lcshChinese in literature
dc.subject.lcshChoy, Wayson, 1939-2019
dc.subject.lcshLee, Sky
dc.subject.lcshChong, Denise
dc.subject.lcshDissertations, Academic
dc.titleLiterary 'bone collectors': recovering the voices of an older generation of Chinese women in British Columbia (1923-1967) in works by Wayson Choy, SKY Lee, and Denise Chong
dc.typeThesis
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