Study of Chinese American Living Space in Bone in the Perspective of Spatial Politics
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Fae Myenne Ng, Living Space, Spatial Politics, Chinese American LiteratureAbstract
Bone, the debut novel of Chinese American novelist Fae Myenne Ng, narrates a story of three generations of Chinese Americans in pursuit of living space and identity. It shows the similar identity dilemmas and living dilemmas of each generation. Also, there are different attempts from each generation. This paper explores the living space of Chinese-Americans and their own choice in Bone from a spatial-political perspective based on existing studies of Chinese-American literature. Through the different spaces, it analyzes how the living space of the Chinese-American family, and even the entire Chinese-American community, is squeezed in the novel, and how the author reconstructs a new living space for Chinese-Americans by describing the different paths of the next generation. The issues of cultural collision and living space presented in Bone inspire how the next generation of Chinese-Americans can move towards diversity and a human community.
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