"I think shame and bilingualism go hand-in-hand. Doris Sommer’s Bilingual Aesthetics was instructive for me here. I’m interested in people for whom identity, especially racial, cultural identity, is a card that you play to establish that you have the upper hand," #Taiwan lithub.com/learning-fro...
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Learning From Shame: R.F. Kuang on Diaspora, Language and Writing Young Protagonists
R.F. Kuang is, in the best sense, a literary chameleon. Each one of her novels presents a different setting and dynamic, but her oeuvre is unified by careful thought, sharp style, and an uncanny ab…
