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Hybrid Identities: Women's Positions Past and Future

Delve into the complex power dynamics, betrayals, and ambiguities faced by women in Larissa Lai's novel "Salt Fish Girl." Explore the shifting roles of Nu Wa, Miranda, and Evie as they navigate a hybrid world of past and future influences. Witness the struggle for control, laborers' positions, and societal reflections in a captivating narrative of memory, guilt, and exploitation.

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Hybrid Identities: Women's Positions Past and Future

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  1. Hybrid Identities: Women's Positions Past and Future Salt Fish Girl By Larissa Lai

  2. Plot Summary: Chaps 4-8 Future Past • The Memory Disease • Business Suit • Miranda Unregulated Zone • Ruby Flowers ( being inserted a wafer) • A Song for Clara Cruise • Meeting Evie again • Evie’s origins • Miranda’s ambiguities • Island of Mist and Forgetfulness • Crossroads (NW  Edwina) • The City of Hope (crimes and murder) • Drowning 1. NW going back with a foreign tongue

  3. Outline • Power Control & Laborers’ Positions • Past • Future • Hybrid Identities in Power Structure • Past: Ambiguous and Contradictory • Future: Manipulated – Evie • Reflecting the Present Society • Jane on the Bus • Drug trade and deception • Betrayal • Nu Wa’s Betrayal of Salt Fish Girl • Nu Wa’s being Betrayed by Edwina, etc. • Turning Points

  4. Laborers in Social Hierarchy -- • Past • Nu Wa’s view of the factories 117

  5. Laborers in Social Hierarchy -- • Future: • The Painted Horse over Serendipity over the Unregulated Zone, but at the Painted House • People are afflicted with the Dreaming Disease • Religion is dominant. (e.g. Ian p. 61; Contagion 76) • Currency and the Position of Vancouver p. 111 • The Father’s work: virtual heroism and actual exploitation 60, 66, 78 • Janitor 76-77 • Evie as a clone p. 160-

  6. Hybrid Identities in Power Structure • Past – • Nu Wa and SFG’s conflicts -- • experience of violence 116 • between laborer and pickpocketing • Nu Wa’s betrayal of SFG • Nu Wa in the Land of Mist and Forgetfulness • Laborer in a hotel • Fortune telling at a gambling house • Drug smuggling • Killing Edwina • Nu Wa as a foreigner back home –being forced to marry Hap

  7. Hybrid Identities in Power Structure • Future • Asian women on the bus p. 164 –harassed by some white boys  Miranda and Evie vs. the bus driver

  8. Betrayal and Guilt • Nu Wa’s guilt 144, 172

  9. Turning Points and Ambiguities In Miranda • her use of the Business Suit 27 the father’s work  Miranda’s intervention pp. 60 68, 79 • Her views of Evie • 105-106 – “It’s you.” recognition • 151 – Evie alien and dirty • 155 – worried about her job and Flowers • 161 – love-making • thinks Flowers benigh 168; • 224-225 love-making and re-generation • fears Evie 228 • (More betrayals in her selling of the mother’s song and making the ad)

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