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Hybrid Identities: Women's Positions Past and Future . Salt Fish Girl By Larissa Lai. 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
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Hybrid Identities: Women's Positions Past and Future Salt Fish Girl By Larissa Lai
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
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
Laborers in Social Hierarchy -- • Past • Nu Wa’s view of the factories 117
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-
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
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
Betrayal and Guilt • Nu Wa’s guilt 144, 172
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)