Asian-Canadian Literature Between: Quasi-Shakespearean Syntax and Deaf Culturalists
Keywords:
silence, deaf culturalists, Shakespearean syntax, word warriorsAbstract
The first reading of Asian-Canadian narratives like Joy Kogawa’s Obasan, Hiromi Goto’s Chorus of Mushrooms and Shauna Baldwin’s What the Body Remembers might lead the reader to think that there is but one single dominant theme that one can call it “diasporic melancholia”, yet this is way too confusing. One can underline the overwhelming presence of the two notions of “exile” as well as “silence”. This paper seeks to shed light on the theme of “silence” not only as a consequence of the “diasporic melancholia” characterizing the different characters exposed in contemporary Asian-Canadian literature, but also as a feature distinguishing such ethno-racial stereotypes as “deaf culturalists” and also brings to light an Asian-Canadian quasi-Shakespearean syntax attempting to characterize ethnic minorities’ hybrid identities.
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