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BEYOND BINARY LOGICS OF ASSIMILATION CULTURAL HYBRIDITY IN GISH JENS NOVEL TYPICAL AMERICAN

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2022(VII-II).15      10.31703/gpr.2022(VII-II).15      Published : Jun 2022

Beyond Binary Logics of Assimilation: Cultural Hybridity in Gish Jen's Novel Typical American

Abstract

    This paper will conduct an exploration of cultural hybridity through a study of Gish Jen’s novel Typical American, which reconfigures the cultural identities of Chinese Americans as a dynamic, shifting and fluctuating process in the liminal and ‘in-betweenness’ space that Chinese Americans occupy in between Chinese culture and American dominant culture. Gish Jen’s literary works would disintegrate literary Chinatown’s us/other binary oppositions. This study is aimed at redefining the identity politics of diasporic Chinese Americans at the moment of crossing the geographical, cultural, political and social borderline in a postmodern and postcolonial scene as well as in the multicultural scene of the late 20th century.

    Cultural Hybridity, Typical American, In-between World, Liminal, Beyond, Binary Logics

    (1) KaiPing Wang
    PhD Student, American Studies at Area Study Center Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
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    CHICAGO : Wang, KaiPing. 2022. "Beyond Binary Logics of Assimilation: Cultural Hybridity in Gish Jen's Novel Typical American." Global Political Review, VII (II): 138-147 doi: 10.31703/gpr.2022(VII-II).15

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    HARVARD : WANG, K. 2022. Beyond Binary Logics of Assimilation: Cultural Hybridity in Gish Jen's Novel Typical American. Global Political Review, VII, 138-147.

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    MHRA : Wang, KaiPing. 2022. "Beyond Binary Logics of Assimilation: Cultural Hybridity in Gish Jen's Novel Typical American." Global Political Review, VII: 138-147

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    TURABIAN : Wang, KaiPing. "Beyond Binary Logics of Assimilation: Cultural Hybridity in Gish Jen's Novel Typical American." Global Political Review VII, no. II (2022): 138-147. https://doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2022(VII-II).15