Patriarchal Authority and the Southeast Asian Chinese Diaspora in Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s Passports and Other Lives

<p>In Anglophone diasporic Chinese literature, father figures represent forms of authority that both daughters and sons need to grapple with to find answers to questions of identity. In this literature, paternal figures may be marginalized to thematize mother-daughter relationships and identif...

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Main Author: Walter S. H. Lim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2019-12-01
Series:Journal of Transnational American Studies
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Online Access:http://escholarship.org/uc/item/26k1t5dz