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'This essay elaborates on Ouyang Yu's novel The English Class (2010) from the perspective of bilingualism, and demonstrates how this text tackles the dilemma of Chinese migrants as they face choices in language and identity. In the context of a mobilised world of migration, diaspora and globalisation, forms of memory and perceptions of language are dramatically changed. Both language and memory cross borders in the process of migration.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Westerly vol. 63 no. 2 November Catherine Noske (editor), Josephine Taylor (editor), 2018 15315272 2018 periodical issue

    'Writing has long been recognised as a way of locating the self. As a concept, this functions in multifaceted ways, from the importance of cultural expression and representation, to philosophical and linguistic conceptualisations of subjectivity in language. Emile Benveniste wrote of the fall into language : 

    'it is in and through language that man constitutes himself as a subject, because language alone establishes the concept of 'ego' in reality, it its reality which is that of the being. '

    (From the Editors 8)

         2018     pg. 174-184
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