Constructions of Nation and the Chinese in West Indian Literature
by
Anne-Marie Lee-Loy
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
What do twentieth-century fictional images of the Chinese reveal about the construction of nationhood in the former West Indian colonies? In her groundbreaking interdisciplinary work, Searching for Mr. Chin, Anne-Marie Lee-Loy seeks to map and understand a cultural process of identity formation: “Chineseness”...