Myth and Myth Changing Elements of Nu Wa in Salt Fish Girl

1. Myth and Myth Changing Elementsof Nu Wa in Salt Fish Girl

2. “I made the strong ones into women and the weak ones into men” (5). • Myth of origins of Nu Wa: 1. Nu Wa’s creating human being → relates to Dr. Flower’s clone in the episode of Miranda ∵ Dr. Flower’s clone of the Sonias ≒ human creation 2. Why not using the Genesis ? • I think that probably because she more or less wants to present the novel of hybridity by crossing boundaries between the East and the West.

3. In her interview with Ritz Chow, she says that: Particularly with Fox, and to a certain extent with The Salt Fish Girl, I was trying to write to fill in gaps. I was trying somehow [to] contact things that bad been forgotten--a purposely impossible task, but also one interesting creatively. Our histories are fraught with so many absences and omissions--to do with things like women who rebel, women who love women, women who do not belong to the elite classes. When I first started reading Chinese mythologies ... the blank spaces between the words seemed to me to ooze history.

4. “I made the strong ones into women and the weak ones into men” (5). • Myth changing : Originally, there is no description about “strong ones into women and the weak ones into men,” but simply “made into human beings.”  Probably this revision results from her feminist background.

5. “I [the green fish] can give you legs, but the bifurcation of your [Nu Wa’s] tail will be very painful ” (8). • Myth changing by mixing with the Western fairy tale The Little Mermaid  Shows the hybridity by crossing boundaries between the East and the West.