Hybrid Identities: Women's Positions Past and Future

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Hybrid Identities Women's Positions Past and
Future

• Salt Fish Girl
• By Larissa Lai

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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
• Evies origins
• Mirandas 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

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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 Was Betrayal of Salt Fish Girl
• Nu Was being Betrayed by Edwina, etc.
• Turning Points

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Laborers in Social Hierarchy --

• Past
• Nu Was view of the factories 117

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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 Fathers work virtual heroism and actual
  exploitation 60, 66, 78
• Janitor 76-77
• Evie as a clone p. 160-

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Hybrid Identities in Power Structure

• Past
• Nu Wa and SFGs conflicts --
• experience of violence 116
• between laborer and pickpocketing
• Nu Was 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

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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

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Betrayal and Guilt

• Nu Was guilt 144, 172

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Turning Points and Ambiguities

• In Miranda
• her use of the Business Suit 27 the fathers work
  ? Mirandas intervention pp. 60? 68, 79
• Her views of Evie
• 105-106 Its 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 mothers
  song and making the ad)