드니스 정의 <첩의 아이들>: 어머니 유산에 대한 저항과 단절을 통한 중국계 캐나다 자아 확립 (Denise Chong's The Concubine's Children: Establishing a Chinese Canadian Self through Resistance and Exclusion)

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초록

Chinatown has often been discussed in the discourse of race and gender in Asian North American writers. Denise Chong's The Concubine's Children, focusing on the Chinatowns in Vancouver and Nanaimo in Canada, exams how a female Chinese immigrant May-ying is commercialized as gendered and racialized otherness in the process of placing her as a concubine of Chan Sam, her husband in Canada. Though being relocated as a victim of anti-Chinese Immigration law, May-ying's subjectivity was more problematically erased by her own husband's economic desire for being 'a father' by supporting his original family in China and tea house owner who is deeply engaged in inviting May-ying as a concubine for his prostitute business. While resisting being a victim of anti-immigration law and commercialization of gendered other forced by Chan Sam, May-ying ironically fails to escape the fetter of Confucian disciplines deeply inscribed in her mind by allowing them to be values and standards of her life in Canada. Her strong sense of Confucian disciplines also negatively affects her Canadian-born daughter Hing who changes her name Winnie in a way to confine her daughter into the belated world of the Confucianism in Canada. However, Hing resists her mother's Confucian meddling and leaves Chinatown to find her own life. She shows that her mother's disciplines are no longer available in the Canadian-born generation in the end. By separating her narrative from her mother's, Hing attempts to place herself as a proper subject who can write her own story in the history of not the adoptive but the adopted nation by her own will.

영어초록

Chinatown has often been discussed in the discourse of race and gender in Asian North American writers. Denise Chong's The Concubine's Children, focusing on the Chinatowns in Vancouver and Nanaimo in Canada, exams how a female Chinese immigrant May-ying is commercialized as gendered and racialized otherness in the process of placing her as a concubine of Chan Sam, her husband in Canada. Though being relocated as a victim of anti-Chinese Immigration law, May-ying's subjectivity was more problematically erased by her own husband's economic desire for being 'a father' by supporting his original family in China and tea house owner who is deeply engaged in inviting May-ying as a concubine for his prostitute business. While resisting being a victim of anti-immigration law and commercialization of gendered other forced by Chan Sam, May-ying ironically fails to escape the fetter of Confucian disciplines deeply inscribed in her mind by allowing them to be values and standards of her life in Canada. Her strong sense of Confucian disciplines also negatively affects her Canadian-born daughter Hing who changes her name Winnie in a way to confine her daughter into the belated world of the Confucianism in Canada. However, Hing resists her mother's Confucian meddling and leaves Chinatown to find her own life. She shows that her mother's disciplines are no longer available in the Canadian-born generation in the end. By separating her narrative from her mother's, Hing attempts to place herself as a proper subject who can write her own story in the history of not the adoptive but the adopted nation by her own will.

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