JIANGHAN ACADEMIC ›› 2021, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (4): 63-72.doi: 10.16388/j.cnki.cn42-1843/c.2021.04.007

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Migration and Identity:On the Sense of Home in Hong Ying’s Diaspora Poems

LU Xiaowen   

  1. Department of Chinese Language and Literature,Nanyang Technological University,Singapore 639798
  • Received:2020-12-10 Online:2021-08-15 Published:2021-05-19

Abstract: In contemporary discussions on diaspora,interrogation on identity and the proposition where one’s home is are increasingly changing as globalization intensifies. Immigrants’perception of culture and society is no longer limited on one single dimension but gradually expands to cover gender clash between the male and female,discovery of individual value,and even problems and research of post-colonization. Overseas Chinese diaspora poets and writers,being a bridge between China and the West,have provided many cases of diaspora experience in heterogeneous cultures. Chinese emigrant women writers, in particular,have established their writing frameworks from a unique bilateral perspective. On the one hand,they are constructing“an imagination of home,”but on the other they endeavor to find their own location in world literature. They blend themselves with the known culture and history as migrant women poets and writers,and their female tenderness has a multiple implication for their double affiliation. In her writings scrupulously abiding by oriental femininity,Hong Ying attempts to search for the meaning of“home”and reconstructs an imaginative home by reconciling with the past in the migratory journey.

Key words: diaspora, Hong Ying;Contemporary poetry, contemporary poetess;overseas Chinese writer, home writing, new immigrant

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