I have only one literature and it is not mine: reflections from a Chinese-Spanish experience
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2238-2593.organicom.2022.205774Keywords:
Literature , Asian diaspora , Identity, Culture studies, RacismAbstract
Reflections from a Chinese-Utiel-Valencian-Wenzhounese-Spanish identity are seen as particular and minority experiences by Western hegemony, which attaches labels of hypersexualization, fetishization, exoticism, and criminalization to Asian women. In the face of the canon recognized by Eurowhite educational institutions as universal literature, migrant and racialized authors and creators claim for spaces with literary and artistic works about critical notions such as identity, legacy, or memory, by using bordering, mixed, fractured languages. Thus, they disarm the desubjectivized and disembodied subject called “author” who dominates a literary system that excludes rather than includes.
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