![]() “I have really always wanted to explore the dimensionality of Asian-Canadian literature because so often, especially so often, women in the literature were always seen as meek, fragile and submissive, and we don’t really get to have a presence or if we are seen as strong we are usually then the dragon lady or the very two-dimensional evil villain, so for me it was important to portray these characters as three-dimensional. Wong’s writing is also challenging the long held literary stereotypes of Asian women. I was also told I had a great uncle that worked on the continental railway. I was told of family members who married picture brides, they had no choice. ![]() For this blog post, I chose to analyze this book through an archetypal point of view. ![]() “They had people come into San Francisco and Vancouver, they used to call it Gold Mountain,” said Wong. View TheWooWoo from A EN MISC at Sir William Osler High School. The truly haunting The Ugliest Girls draws inspiration from immigration to California and B.C. It almost felt like the end of the world,” said Wong. “I remember it snowing, being cold, not Winnipeg cold, and walking on the highway by myself and thinking this is so scary. ![]() This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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