The Autobiographies of Han Suyin

Finding a literary placement for a writer such as Han Suyin—a novelist/autobiographer/historian, of Chinese and Belgian parentage, Chinese upbringing, European and British education, who holds a Hong Kong passport and resides in Switzerland with her Indian husband—is the kind of challenge which will in the future more frequently present itself to the literary critic concerned with the phenomenon of postcolonial literature in English. While writers such as Salman Rushdie and the Bharati Mukherjee (151) have commented on what Mukherjee calls the "deep sense of marginality" of such writers, neither of these represents quite so many margins as does Han. For the critic, finding a venue for work on such a writer presents new margins, since Han has no location in the politics of postcoloniaiism, where a writer's direct ties to the ideological, geographical, racial, and historical struggles within the old British empire, still tends to mandate if his or her work is considered worthy of academic attention

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