Abstract: Everything I Never Told You, a debut novel of Chinese American novelist Celeste Ng, portrays the chaotic relationships of the Lee family. It is a tragic story beyond the author’s personal identity and race. As a new literary theory appeared in the early 1980s, New Historicism pays close attention to the relationship between historical context and literary production, examines the mutual molding process of history and literature. For new historicists, literary texts are as important as non-literary texts. New Historicism is also devoted to studying the historical and cultural context, as well as latter’s influence on the course of history. Employing the theory of New Historicism, this paper tries to analyze the interactive relationship between history and text, and get a thorough understanding of this novel.
Keywords: Celeste Ng; Everything I Never Told You; New Historicism; Historicity of Text; Textuality of History.
Title: A Study of Everything I Never Told You from New Historicism
Author: Changli Li
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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