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Storytelling in Amy Tan’s The bonesetter’s daughter: belonging and the transnationality of home in older age
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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IdentitiesISSN
1070-289XPublisher
Taylor & FrancisExternal DOI
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5Volume
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606-624Department affiliated with
- Geography Publications
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2016-09-22First Open Access (FOA) Date
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2016-09-21Usage metrics
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