In 1905, white supremacist Lionel Terry murdered the Cantonese gold prospector Joe Kum Yung to draw attention to his crusade to rid New Zealand of Chinese and other east Asian immigrants. Author Chris Tse uses this story-and its reenactment for a documentary a hundred years later-to reflect on the experiences of Chinese migrants of the period, their wishes and hopes, their estrangement and alienation, their ghostly reverberation through a white-majority culture. Along the way readers visit the gold fields of the south; a shipwreck in the Hokianga that left the spirits of 500 Chinese gold miners in an unmemorialized limbo for a hundred years; and the streets of Newtown, Wellington, where Lionel Terry went out one night "looking for a Chinaman." Chris Tse’s flickering use of imagery, resonant language, and flexible pronouns are particularly suited to the historic events he describes and the viewpoints he shifts through. How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes is a welcome poetic addition to New Zealand literature.
Chris Tse
How to Be Dead in a Year of Snakes [EPUB ebook]
How to Be Dead in a Year of Snakes [EPUB ebook]
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भाषा अंग्रेज़ी ● स्वरूप EPUB ● ISBN 9781775587552 ● प्रकाशक Auckland University Press ● प्रकाशित 2015 ● डाउनलोड करने योग्य 3 बार ● मुद्रा EUR ● आईडी 6867647 ● कॉपी सुरक्षा Adobe DRM
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