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This paper examines Terry Woo's "The Banana Boys", a fiction book about Chinese born Canadian youths. The derogatory term, 'banana boy', refers to the fact that they are 'yellow' (that is, Chinese) on the outside, but 'white' (that is, Canadian) inside. The paper discusses how each of the boys has a distinct way of dealing with his identity of a 'banana boy', implying that there is no single Asian-Canadian experience. Finally, the paper adds that the book is relevant not only to the Chinese community in Canada but to the larger Canadian community as well, made up, to a large extent, of immigrants and their children.

From the Paper
"This book is of great relevance both to the Chinese-Canadian and to all other Canadians too. It is a unique work of literature that tells a story of the Chinese Canadians in present time, and their attempts to carve a unique identity for themselves, each of the boys in his own way. They may have tried hard to fit in with the "Chinese" identity or the "Canadian" identity, but there will never be a distinct group for them to fit in completely and fully belong. The "Chinese" and the "Canadians" do not quite claim them as their own, so they search for their own unique identity in pop culture. Many Asian Canadians who have been born in this country or who group up here may find that the 'banana boys' resemble them in many ways, and that the experiences of the 'banana boys' with racism, culture, work, etc. are also their own experiences. Furthermore, other Canadians who are also coming from different cultures may find that the book appeals to them too. The children of immigrants are often faced with identity questions much like the characters of "Banana Boys", and the silent cultural clash is something many experience."

Tags:Chinese-Canadian literature minority immigrant immigration, second generation

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This paper discusses gender affecting a male student of the Chinese Canadian community. This author uses a cultural approach to explain that the stereotype of male preference in Chinese culture has various results.

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This paper discusses the nature of modern literature written by Chinese-American authors. It analyzes common themes and trends in this literature style. Works examined include Eric Liu's "The Accidental Asian" and Maxine Hong Kingston's "The Woman Warrior". It also looks at Lisa See's "On Gold Mountain" and Amy Tan's novel "The Joy Luck Club". The paper discusses issues such as the language style used in these novels and common themes.

From the Paper
"A substantial body of Chinese American writing emerged in the 1970s and the flow of novels, stories, poems, family histories and memoirs has grown steadily ever since. Although there is great variety among these (mostly) second-generation writers the predominant focus of their work has been on questions that have evolved around the phenomenon of being Asian in America. The majority of these writers have forgotten most of their Chinese, never having learned it much beyond their pre-school years, and they write about the difficulty of balancing on the biracial, bicultural cusp between the old-world ways of their parents and their own lives as speakers of American English functioning in a culture that was, and often remains, entirely foreign to their parents. As these American-born Chinese (ABCs) attempt to assess their own place in a nation where they constitute a very small percentage of a population that is sometimes hostile toward them they are also, like most immigrants' children, compelled to wonder about the culture from which they came. The dilemma of their own "Chineseness" is the question underlying all the works discussed here. But there are nearly as many ways of approaching the question as there are writers. The present discussion of various kinds of literary production by a number of contemporary Chinese-American writers will, therefore, concentrate on why writers chose particular forms, how these approaches facilitate the questions they want to ask, and what answers they have found to the essential question of what it means to be "Chinese" in America."

Tags:liu, accidental, asian, gold, mountain, see, woman, warrior, joy, luck, club, tan, kingston

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This paper explains that much French-Canadian literature, especially the more early forms, had geographic themes; even when many of the writers began moving into the cities, they used their new environment as a foundation for their works. The author points out, that Albert Laberge wrote about rural life, but in a negative fashion, contrary to most literary artists of his time; where previous rural novels included idyllic characters and surroundings in an environment of socio-moral ascension, Laberge saw humans as snared in a world of misery and mediocrity, leading to moral and social decay. This paper relates that, in the last few decades, French-Canadian literature has become globalized with the inclusion of ethnic writers immigrating from Italy, Haiti, and China.

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"Patrice Lacombe wrote Paternal Ground in 1846, the very first "novel of the ground", as it later was called. This theme of the strong relationship with the land dominated French Canadian literature for nearly a century. Lacombe's work relates the despondency of a rural family following their youngest son's decision to leave home to travel abroad. The older son tries to keep the farm going, but loses it through bad business decisions. The father tries to work in the city, but is desolate. Fortunately, the young son returns with enough money to buy new land, and the family is safe once again."

Tags:multiculturalism, rural, immigration, land, explorers

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This paper focuses on Liang and Jung (daughter and middle son), and their relationships, experiences, and the stories they're told, culminating in a description of what makes them Chinese Canadian.

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"While today we view Canada, and specifically Vancouver, as a part of the world where people of all creeds and colors are welcome, and even if in some sense it has been so for most of the past century, the general warmth of that welcome has varied a great deal over that century. The fictional work "The Jade Peony" is a novel set in Vancouver roughly between 1930 and 1942, following the lives of a Chinese immigrants family living in what is now downtown Vancouver. While it may be true that Vancouver might have been one of the more hospitable cities globally for people of varying ethnic backgrounds at the time, the story reflects on the relative..."

Tags:canada, china, vancouver

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This paper reviews three novels by Canadian women authors as a way to compare and contrast their writing styles, and how these styles work to convey the complex relations of mothers and daughters. All three stories, (Hetty Dorval, The Swamp Angel, The Fire-Dwellers) deal with issues of language, silence, and the value of symbols and metaphors to express what is often inexpressible for women. This essay explores these themes through the writing of the authors, Ethel Wilson and Margaret Laurence, who portray a relation of writer with subject, where the ambiguities of understanding women in society become a shared project of story and writing.

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This paper discusses how a community generates literature that reflects its own attitudes and values and how literature simultaneously moulds community, and reflects it. It consider these interacting influences within the context of Sophocles' "Oedipus the King," as well as within the context of modern Canadian literature and culture. The paper also discusses this in the context of the writer's own experience of cultural community.

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"One of these distinctly Canadian discourses may be said to be the discourse of sport, and particularly of hockey. As one theorist put it, "The rituals of sport engage more people in a shared experience than any other institution or cultural activity today." (Varda Burstyn, The Rites of Men, quoted in Coakley and Donnelly, 1) Watching hockey together has become a symbolic action that unites Canadians. Interestingly, sport as a component of ideology and community building is highlighted in John B. Lee's poetry collection, The Hockey Player Sonnets: Overtime Edition. Lee succeeds in making clear a significant aspect of Canadian hockey-related mythology, albeit one that is primarily white and male."

Tags:rhetoric, ideology, sport, nationalism

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The paper relates that Roger is a Canadian born and bred, as they say, and he looks upon all newcomers as less than full citizens. The paper relates that he expresses this in the way he treats some of his neighbors, showing his contempt for people who come from other countries. The paper explains that this is not a racial thing for him as much as it is a deep-seated sense of the importance of national identity, and he promotes policies that restrict immigration and naturalization as he extols the people born in Canada as the only real Canadians.

From the Paper
"Roger is a Canadian born and bred, as they say, and he looks upon all newcomers as less than full citizens. He expresses this in the way he treats some of his neighbors, showing his contempt for people who come from other countries. This is not a racial thing for him as much as it is a deep-seated sense of the importance of national identity, and he promotes policies that restrict immigration and naturalization as he extols the people born in Canada as the only real Canadians. He gets into an argument on this issue at a local meeting and suggests that those born in Canada in the era after the formation of the country are somehow..."

Tags:canadian, immigrant, definitions

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This paper discusses the growth and changes of the Canadian worker since the wave of immigration began in the mid-Nineteenth Century to post-war Canada. It provides an overview of early immigration and the improvement of conditions of the workforce.

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"Canada like the United States is a nation made up of immigrants. While it seems possible that Eric the Red and other Vikings discovered Canada in about AD the actual growth of population and ..."

Tags:Unemployment Insurance, strike, Winnipeg, immigration, industry, unions

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The paper briefly outlines what entities such as the BPIDP (Book Publishing Industry Development Program) and the Canada Council for the Arts do for the book publishing industry and its writers in this country. Among other things, the following several pages outline how an organization such as BPIDP has allowed the sector to grow, perhaps despite itself. The paper also examines how the Canada Council of the Arts through subsidizing talented artists, allows Canadian literature to remain flourishing in the face of many challenges.

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"How would the absence of (public) funding change publishing in Canada? The absence of funding would have a deleterious effect upon Canadian publishing because the publishing sector in this country is only viable if it receives outside help."

Tags:canadian, publishing, funding