{"product_id":"writing-the-hyphen-susanne-hilf-9783631370445","title":"Writing the Hyphen: The Articulation of Interculturalism in Contemporary Chinese-Canadian Literature","description":"This study explores how issues of interculturalism and hybridity are dealt with in early and contemporary Chinese-Canadian literature. The book opens with an overview of the sociohistorical context which shaped many of the recurring topics and tropes in Chinese-Canadian writing. Drawing on select post-colonial theories as well as on the idea of  writing culture , the subsequent discussion of poems and short stories published in the 1970s and 1980s reveals that the authors of earlier works sought to define a distinct and ethnoculturally specific collective identity. While dualisms such as \u003ci\u003eAsian \u003c\/i\u003e- \u003ci\u003eCanadian \u003c\/i\u003eor \u003ci\u003eUs \u003c\/i\u003e- \u003ci\u003eThem \u003c\/i\u003eform the basis of identity formation in these earlier writings, the author argues that the more recent and stylistically hybrid prose works by Sky Lee, Larissa Lai and Fred Wah undermine such dualisms, illustrating a more playful and less programmatic use of cultural overlapping.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susanne Hilf\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 363137044X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783631370445\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/17\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 178\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Susanne Hilf","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48519799046399,"sku":"9783631370445","price":88.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_128a80ab-ae04-4b9b-a84d-b9ec64a6ea6f.jpg?v=1778738883","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/writing-the-hyphen-susanne-hilf-9783631370445","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}