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A 7 page paper that discusses Sky Lee’s 1991 novel Disappearing Moon Café concerns five generations of a Chinese Canadian family whose saga is shaped by cultural, economic and social factors that pertain to both China. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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pertain to both China and Canada across the historical period portrayed in the text. As this suggests, the portrayal of immigrant experience is central to the stories of the individual
characters, as the novel presents "Chinese Canadian-ness" as being a multi-positional appellation that describes an "array of differing and often conflicting identifications with Chinese and English Canadian culture" (Tuzi 90).
The overall context of Lees narrative underscores how members of ethnic minorities are faced with the complex problem of constructing meaningful identifies within a social and cultural framework that is
multifaceted, complex, and contradictory. While this indicates that the Lees Chinese Canadian characters are often acted upon, Lee also shows that her protagonists participate in the "construction and
reconstruction of (their) social reality," which is one in which their identities are "simultaneously... constructed by surrounding and compelling social and historical forces" (Tuzi 90). The following examination of Lees
novel looks at these issues of identity, that is, how immigrant Chinese women, and their descendent, managed the problem of establishing a coherent self that embodies and copes with two
cultures. When Sky Lee (aka Sharon Lee) was growing up in Port Alberni, a mill town in northern British Columbia, she often felt conflicted feelings concerning her Chinese heritage
and her parents. She says that her mother "never attempted to Canadianize her thinking," as she dried fish on the front lawn and vegetables on the clothesline (Guibert 43). Lee
also recalls that she was not allowed to wash her hair on special days and that she felt acute embarrassment when her mother would gather watercress from a field
near her school. Her friends would question her: "Is that your mother? What are you guys eating" (Guibert 43). Then, on the other hand, Lee goes on to say
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