Writing the literature of non-denial  

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Xi, Xu

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: World Englishes (Full Text) vol. 19 no. 3 (2000), page 415-428.
Fulltext: WE_19-03_2000_Xi.pdf (192.97KB)

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The paper is divided into three sections, and traces my evolution as a `Hong Kong writer' in English through questions of identity, language and creativity. In `Ethnicity and culture,' I discuss how both factors constrain and heighten my creative process. Despite my Hong Kong origins, I am questionably `local' because of my ethnicity and personal history. The city itself embraces a schizophrenic identity, neither Chinese nor Western, and lacks a `national culture'. This offers rich material for fiction but is also confusing. `Language as stumbling block' delves into being jammed between two national Englishes, British and American, in trying to give voice to Hong Kong's socio-political situation. The other linguistic issue, Chinese, is addressed by studying Mandarin in the US, so that my English is ultimately enriched by Chinese. Finally, `Beyond the denial of self ' focuses on my most recently completed novel The Unwalled City. In writing it, I come to grips with many of the issues raised in the first two sections of this paper. Not denying reality as I know it is central to the process. The novel becomes my Hong Kong statement of a city and its people whose curious reality cannot be ignored.

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