Chapter Journey to a foreign land: imagining migration in Sinophone Literature from Thailand
Sima Gong and Zeng Xin are two of the most prominent contemporary Sinophone writers in Thailand. Although they were born in Thailand, they frequently write about migration. In this chapter I want to ask why the motive of migration is so prominent in their works and how they write about it. I argue t...
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| description | Sima Gong and Zeng Xin are two of the most prominent contemporary Sinophone writers in Thailand. Although they were born in Thailand, they frequently write about migration. In this chapter I want to ask why the motive of migration is so prominent in their works and how they write about it. I argue that their ancestors’ quest from China to Thailand is indeed not the focus of attention but the wandering between these two places. Although they did not physically migrate from China to Thailand, these authors use literature as a means to travel mentally between the two countries, and “re-live” the migratory experience through their texts. Analyzing these selected texts offers a unique insight into the authors’ floating identity, one that is constantly migrating between China and Thailand. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-998732025-07-17T12:15:38Z Chapter Journey to a foreign land: imagining migration in Sinophone Literature from Thailand Ehrenwirth, Rebecca Migration Sinophone Thailand Identity Literature thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies Sima Gong and Zeng Xin are two of the most prominent contemporary Sinophone writers in Thailand. Although they were born in Thailand, they frequently write about migration. In this chapter I want to ask why the motive of migration is so prominent in their works and how they write about it. I argue that their ancestors’ quest from China to Thailand is indeed not the focus of attention but the wandering between these two places. Although they did not physically migrate from China to Thailand, these authors use literature as a means to travel mentally between the two countries, and “re-live” the migratory experience through their texts. Analyzing these selected texts offers a unique insight into the authors’ floating identity, one that is constantly migrating between China and Thailand. 2023-05-02T04:31:52Z 2023-05-02T04:31:52Z 2023-05-01T13:46:50Z 2023 chapter ONIX_20230501_9791221500684_264 2704-5919 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62848 9791221500684 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/99873 eng Studi e saggi open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/62848/1/chapter-37267.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/62848/1/chapter-37267.pdf Firenze University Press 10.36253/979-12-215-0068-4.13 10.36253/979-12-215-0068-4.13 2ec4474d-93b1-4cfa-b313-9c6019b51b1a 9791221500684 17 Florence open access |
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