Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Arts, Design and Contemporary Education

"The Other" Trapped in a Bicultural Dilemma. An Analysis of Celeste Ng' s Everything I Never Told You

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Yan Yin, Junping Liu
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Available Online May 2016.
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10.2991/icadce-16.2016.71How to use a DOI?
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Celeste Ng; Everything I Never Told You; the Other; Chinese American literature; the space of cultural hybridity
Abstract

In her first Novel Everything I Never Told You, selected as the Amazon's NO.1 Best Book of 2014, Celeste Ng, a Chinese American woman writer of 80's, explores a theme which distinguishes it from the rest Chinese American novels. It is about a tragedy that happened in a mixed race family, the family of a Chinese American college professor and his stay-at-home white wife in a small Ohio town in the 1970s. Taking an advantage of her bicultural identity "Chinese American—American" , Celeste Ng describes the culture clash that Chinese Americans confront in a space of cultural hybridity and reproduces a live picture, in which"the Other" are trapped in a bicultural dilemma, in this literary work.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Arts, Design and Contemporary Education
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
May 2016
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10.2991/icadce-16.2016.71
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/icadce-16.2016.71How to use a DOI?
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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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