Eurasian Extinction: Miscegenation and the Question of the Native in Macau Literature
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For the multiethnic city of Macau, the era of political transition from Portuguese to Chinese rule (1987–1999) placed renewed importance on definitions of belonging and nativity. This paper argues that a narrative of Eurasian extinction has been a crucial mode in which to articulate Sinitic belonging in the literary space of pre-postcolonial Macau. Tracing the figure of the Macanese Eurasian protagonists in the work of Sinophone authors Li Guanding and Liao Zixin, I read these narratives as being characterized by the troubled presence of the non-procreative mestiço who threatens to condemn the entire Eurasian community to extinction. The looming theme of Eurasian demise is not to be understood as a lament over the city’s lost colonial era but, I argue, should be read as an anxious reflection on the difficulties of Sinitic native access in a city soon to be subsumed by a hegemonizing and homogenizing Chinese nation.
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For the multiethnic city of Macau, the era of political transition from Portuguese to Chinese rule (1987–1999) placed renewed importance on definitions of belonging and nativity. This paper argues that a narrative of Eurasian extinction has been a crucial mode in which to articulate Sinitic belonging in the literary space of pre-postcolonial Macau. Tracing the figure of the Macanese Eurasian protagonists in the work of Sinophone authors Li Guanding and Liao Zixin, I read these narratives as being characterized by the troubled presence of the non-procreative mestiço who threatens to condemn the entire Eurasian community to extinction. The looming theme of Eurasian demise is not to be understood as a lament over the city’s lost colonial era but, I argue, should be read as an anxious reflection on the difficulties of Sinitic native access in a city soon to be subsumed by a hegemonizing and homogenizing Chinese nation.
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