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Storytelling in Amy Tan’s The bonesetter’s daughter: belonging and the transnationality of home in older age

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posted on 2023-06-09, 03:01 authored by Katie WalshKatie Walsh
Amy Tan’s The Bonesetter’s Daughter is a fictional account of a Chinese American woman and her mother, a first generation migrant, who is negotiating dementia in later life. Analysis of diasporic novels can provide insight into migrant belonging, especially the emotional geographies of home and emotional subjectivities of ageing that are not commonly or easily elucidated even by qualitative interviewing methods. This article examines Tan’s construction of ageing as an intergenerational, cultural and emotional process, and highlights the role of storytelling as an everyday home-making practice through which the transnationality of home in older age becomes evident.

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Identities

ISSN

1070-289X

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Issue

5

Volume

24

Page range

606-624

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  • Geography Publications

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  • Yes

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2016-09-22

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2019-03-19

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2016-09-21

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