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L’espace de l’entre-deux : une étude de l’exil dans l’oeuvre de Ying Chen

  • Author / Creator
    Chan, Hannah Y
  • Exile, a term that encompasses a variety of meanings, implies primarily an uprootal or a displacement towards something else: the departure from a point of familiarity towards the unknown. These days, in a world where individuals are increasingly mobile and métissés, this term no longer applies exclusively to the migratory experience. The feeling of otherness, longing for a lost past, and alienation lead to a sense of non-belonging in a state of in-betweenness. As a result, it comes as no surprise that exile is often at the centre of literary works where the act of writing becomes a means of reimagining this exilic experience. In the case of the works of Chinese writer, Ying Chen, the expression of exile moves progressively from a physical/geographical state to a psychological – or even – metaphorical, symbolic one. In this study, I will show the evolution of exile in Chen’s work through the lens of her changing writing aesthetic, which aims for abstraction.

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  • Graduation date
    Fall 2012
  • Type of Item
    Thesis
  • Degree
    Master of Arts
  • DOI
    https://doi.org/10.7939/R3068Z
  • License
    This thesis is made available by the University of Alberta Libraries with permission of the copyright owner solely for non-commercial purposes. This thesis, or any portion thereof, may not otherwise be copied or reproduced without the written consent of the copyright owner, except to the extent permitted by Canadian copyright law.