What 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, Searching for Mr. Chin, Anne-Marie Lee-Loy seeks to map and...
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What 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, Searching for Mr. Chin, Anne-Marie Lee-Loy seeks to map and understand a cultural process of identity formation: “Chineseness” in the West Indies.Reading 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
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Forgotten Remembrance: Literature and the Banal Performance of Nation; 2. "Just Another Chinaman": The Chinese as Outsiders to the Nation; 3. "A Real Creolise Chinee": Establishing Creole Inclusiveness; 4. From the Other Side of the Counter: Chinese West Indian Self-Representations; Conclusion; Notes; Index