The broken bodies of language and history in Vyvyane Loh’s breaking the tongue by Lui, Karen Jia Yi

“…The third-person narrative is interrupted by the seemingly arbitrary presence of Chinese characters and a dream-like second-person narrative of Claude the Body’s torture by the Japanese. This dissertation explores the role of language and mutilated bodies in isolated passages or scenes in redefining notions of identity and history. …”
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