As a Peruvian writer of Chinese origin, Siu Kam Wen describes in the story «The Conversion of Uei-Kuong» the chaotic life of Uei-Kuong, a Peruvian who grew up in China but returns to live in Lima. By using the multiple discourses of time, space, and narrators, Siu constructs the figure of the «migrant subject» and talks about the confusion of ethnic identity due to the incongruence of the cognitive «I» and the social «me». Through Uei-Kuong, Siu Kam Wen manages to present not only the «individual self» that suffers from identity crisis, but also the «collective self» of the Chinese male immigrants who live simultaneously in two worlds, but condemned to belong to the «no place». © 2018 Instituto Teologico de Caceres, Universidad de Extremadura. All rights reserved.

narrative Identity migrant Heterogeneity Transculturation

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