UNDERSTANDING FRANK CHIN: THE TRAILS OF CHINESE AMERICAN IDENTITY IN “RAILROAD STANDARD TIME” AND “THE EAT AND RUN MIDNIGHT PEOPLE”
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2023
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In “Rail Road Standard Time” and “The Eat and Run Midnight People,” published in the short story collection titled The Chinaman Pacific and Frisco R.R. Co. (1988), Frank Chin focuses on several issues such as cultural heritage and transmission, identity, railroad narrations, food, and masculinity. In the first short story, Chin is going to his mother’s funeral, and during this journey, he jumps between his memories that help the reader to see the trails of his Chinese American identity formation. In the second story, Chin once more returns to his memories by taking up the role of the narrator and reveals the issues of double discrimination, masculinity, and the influences of American culture on his identity formation. The aim of this article is to analyze Chin’s selected short stories from a thematic and social perspective. The article also aims to reveal how the author tries to maintain his ethnicity and reflect his identity molded by two different cultures.
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Frank Chin, Asian American, Chinese American, identity, ethnicity[Frank Chin, Asyalı Amerikalı, Çinli Amerikalı, kimlik, etnik köken
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Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi
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