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Williams presents paper at English conferenceBy - May 5, 2008 - 8:43 amEmail this article | Printer friendly page Williams' paper was titled "Passage to America and the Alien Immigrant: The Trope of Body as Location and Dislocation, and the Construction of Home in Hauling Nieh's Novel, Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China." The paper discussed the various ways the Asian female body inhabits specific political and social locations or dislocations. It particularly examined how a woman's body serves as a symbolic location of homeland and nation, while also representing dislocation, and signifies the stranger in the society in which it dwells. |