A genealogy of fish women and other imagined identities: “The mechanics of fluids” in Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl

Fluidity invigorates a utopian home in Chinese Canadian author Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl (2002). In the novel, the fishlike lesbian couple cyclically returns to their aquatic habitat between mortal reincarnations: from last‐century colonial South China to near‐future bio‐capitalistic Canada,...

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Published in:	Orbis litterarum Vol. 80; no. 6; pp. 602 - 618
Main Author:	Ma, Qianyi
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Malden Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.12.2025
Subjects:	Chinese diaspora geneology Larissa Lai queer sexuality water aesthetics
ISSN:	0105-7510, 1600-0730
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