![]() Within this study, tracing the specific cultural, gender-related and generational gaps between the ethnic identities, an Indian-American short story collection and a Chinese-American novel will be examined with specifically identifying how the dilemma of ‘inbetweenness’ is manifested by the author’s genuine treatment of language. Such a dichotomist variation causes the minority groups to go through identity crisis heightened by rootlessness and inbetweenness. Inevitably, the differences cause a version of dichotomist discourse in which the traditional versus the modern. ![]() When the deviance between traditional experience, attributed to the minority groups such as immigrants, and the modernity, attributed to the dominant society, hugely contrasts, the margins are usually ascribed the position of backwardness and inferiority. Inbetweenness, caused mostly by migration, is the inevitable dilemma of being ‘the other’ among a dominant homogenous whole. ![]() This stylistic study attempts to examine the concept of inbetweenness experienced by two distinct ethnic identities, Chinese and Indian, as reflected by two ethnic female American authors with their specific treatment of language. ![]()
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