Searching for Mr. Chin: Constructions of Nation and the Chinese in West Indian Literature

by Anne-Marie Lee-Loy

What do twentieth-century fictional images of the Chinese reveal about the construction of nationhood in the former West Indian colonies? In her groundbreaking interdisciplinary work, Searching for Mr. Chin, Anne-Marie Lee-Loy seeks to map and understand a cultural process of identity formation: "Chineseness" in the West Indies.

Reading behind the stereotypical image of the Chinese in the West Indies, she compares fictional representations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439901309
• ISBN13: 9781439901304
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.5"