{"product_id":"searching-for-mr-chin-anne-marie-lee-loy-9781439901304","title":"Searching for Mr. Chin: Constructions of Nation and the Chinese in West Indian Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat 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, \u003ci\u003eSearching for Mr. Chin, \u003c\/i\u003eAnne-Marie Lee-Loy seeks to map and understand a cultural process of identity formation: \"Chineseness\" in the West Indies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading behind the stereotypical image of the Chinese in the West Indies, she compares fictional representations of Chinese characters in Jamaica, Trinidad, and Guyana to reveal the social and racial hierarchies present in literature by popular authors such as V.S. Naipaul and Samuel Selvon, as well as lesser known writers and hard to access literary texts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing historical, discursive, and theoretical frameworks for her literary analysis, Lee-Loy shows how the unstable and ambiguous \"belonging\" afforded to this \"middleman minority\" speaks to the ways in which narrative boundaries of the nation are established. In addition to looking at how Chinese have been viewed as \"others,\" Lee-Loy examines self-representations of \"Chineseness\" and how they complicate national narratives of belonging. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anne-Marie Lee-Loy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1439901309\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781439901304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Temple University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/28\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 198\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.70w x 0.80d","brand":"Anne-Marie Lee-Loy","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48742563381503,"sku":"9781439901304","price":46.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/searching-for-mr-chin-anne-marie-lee-loy-9781439901304","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}