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The Legend of Auntie Po

The Legend of Auntie Po

$490

ISBN:9780525554899
作者:Khor, Shing Yin
出版社:Penguin
出版日期:2021/06/15
系列名稱:National Book Awards
尺寸:210x135x25mm

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★ 美國國家圖書獎


Part historical fiction, part magical realism, and 100 percent adventure. Thirteen-year-old Mei reimagines the myths of Paul Bunyan as starring a Chinese heroine while she works in a Sierra Nevada logging camp in 1885.


Aware of the racial tumult in the years after the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Mei tries to remain blissfully focused on her job, her close friendship with the camp foreman's daughter, and telling stories about Paul Bunyan-reinvented as Po Pan Yin (Auntie Po), an elderly Chinese matriarch.

Anchoring herself with stories of Auntie Po, Mei navigates the difficulty and politics of lumber camp work and her growing romantic feelings for her friend Bee. The Legend of Auntie Po is about who gets to own a myth, and about immigrant families and communities holding on to rituals and traditions while staking out their own place in America.

 

《寶姨傳奇》作者許欣盈在書中講述1885年,13歲的美在內華達山脈伐木營地工作時重新編撰保羅·班揚的神話以一位華人女英雄為主軸,呈現了部分的歷史小說,部分魔幻現實主義和百分之百的冒險。
 
意識到排華法案通過後幾年的種族騷亂,小美試圖幸福快樂地專注於她的工作,她與營地領班的女兒‛碧′維繫親密的友誼,將保羅班揚重新塑造為寶盼茵(寶姨)的故事,一位年長的華人女族長。
 
小美以寶姨的故事為基礎,描繪伐木營地工作的困難和結黨關係,以及酷兒的她對朋友‛碧′日益增長的浪漫情愫。《寶姨傳奇》陳述誰可以擁有神話,以及移民家庭和社區在堅持儀式和傳統的同時,如何設法在美國佔有一席之地。

(文字整理/楊靜愉)

Shing Yin Khor is a cartoonist and installation artist exploring the Americana mythos and new human rituals. A Malaysian-Chinese immigrant, and an American citizen since 2011, they are also the author of The American Dream?, a graphic novel about travelling Route 66.

The Legend of Auntie Po

$490