It is the identity of a nation or a culture or the identity of an individual as one isinfluenced by one’s attributes to a nation or a culture. Culture identity is one important view in the field of post-colonial literature criticismtheory. The autobiographical work embodies her concernabout the identity of Chinese immigrates in Australia and reveals her new perception of theculture identity of current Chinese-Australians as well as her new research into ethnicattributes. The novel narrates the conflict and integration between Chinese culture andAustralian culture, the new immigrates who lose their culture identity, and who encounter racialdiscrimination and sexual discrimination. The subjectis how Alice Pung, as a Chinese-Australian girl, seeks her culture identity in the strangeenvironment. Besides, the novel showsanother subject which cannot be easily perceived but run through the whole work. Through her description,readers can know how they survive arduously in the alien country under the influence ofmainstream Australian culture and Traditional Chinese culture.
In theautobiographical novel, Alice Pung vividly describes her family and their life stories inAustralia taking her personal experiences as the source materials. Unpolished Gem is the first novel of the Chinese-Australian writer Alice Pung.
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