Unnamed Chinese Laundryman

Submitted by jbc@ku.edu on Wed, 2017-11-29 15:58
Text: 
The Town
Character Key: 
Unnamed Chinese Laundryman
Display Name: 
Unnamed Chinese Laundryman
Sort Name: 
Unnamed Chinese Laundryman
Race: 
Asian
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Lower Class
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
Occupation: 
Sales and Service
Specific Job: 
Laundryman
First Mentioned: 
Courthouse and Square in The Town (Location)
Biography: 

This "Chinese laundryman" is the only Asian character who appears in Yoknapatawpha. Charles Mallison explains why, although he is not white, this man is in a category that is distinct from the one that the other non-white - i.e. Negro - inhabitants of Yoknapatawpha belong to: "And although the Chinese was definitely a colored man even if not a Negro, he was only he, single peculiar and barren; not just kinless but even kindless, half the world or anyway half the continent . . . sundered from his like and therefore as threatless as a mule" (321).

Ethnicity: 
Chinese
Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 

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