Embodying a Racialised Multiculturalism: Strategic Essentialism and Lived Hybridities in Hoa Pham’s No One Like Me
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https://doi.org/10.21153/pecl2007vol17no2art1194Keywords:
No One Like Me, Hoa Pham, Asian-Australian studies, multiculturalism, race, genderAbstract
A brief analysis of Hoa Pham's novel is presented by situating it within discourses of multiculturalism and the field of Asian-Australian Studies. The negotiation of tension in Hoa Pham's junior fiction novel 'No One Like Me' is examined and it is argued that it strategically essentialises race and gender in order to destabilise homogenised conceptions of these categories of identity.
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