For the early generation of both Chinese and Indian immigrants,their deep immersion in their own language and cultural environment has given their life experience an indelible nostalgia.However,the children of their d...For the early generation of both Chinese and Indian immigrants,their deep immersion in their own language and cultural environment has given their life experience an indelible nostalgia.However,the children of their descendants born in the United States have no such cultural heritage and spiritual burden,their thinking on values,languages,education,occupation,clothing,social communications,etc.are more largely Americanized and culturally identified with the mainstream society.In this way,the various intergenerational conflicts reflected in Chinese and Indian American literature implies the importance of negotiation through the use of shared resource between the old and new identities to balance,adapt and integrate in the adopted land.展开更多
The Chineseness of Chinese American literature is often assumed to be an unquestionable premise,but Chinese American writers are in fact ambivalent toward Chinese culture.By revisiting Frank Chin’s persistent accusat...The Chineseness of Chinese American literature is often assumed to be an unquestionable premise,but Chinese American writers are in fact ambivalent toward Chinese culture.By revisiting Frank Chin’s persistent accusation of other Chinese American writers’“faking”of Chinese culture,this paper examines the changing attitudes of Chinese American writers toward Chinese culture and the quintessential Americanness of Chinese American writings.Through a comparative analysis of the Chinese elements in the texts of Frank Chin and Maxine Hong Kingston,it is argued that the kind of culture in Chinese American literature is an indigenous American product with a Chinesesounding name invented to survive America and therefore should be properly called(Chinese)American culture.In Chinese American literature,the Chinese elements are employed instrumentally as empowering ethnic markers to fortify the American cultural values at the core of this ethnic American culture.展开更多
文摘For the early generation of both Chinese and Indian immigrants,their deep immersion in their own language and cultural environment has given their life experience an indelible nostalgia.However,the children of their descendants born in the United States have no such cultural heritage and spiritual burden,their thinking on values,languages,education,occupation,clothing,social communications,etc.are more largely Americanized and culturally identified with the mainstream society.In this way,the various intergenerational conflicts reflected in Chinese and Indian American literature implies the importance of negotiation through the use of shared resource between the old and new identities to balance,adapt and integrate in the adopted land.
文摘The Chineseness of Chinese American literature is often assumed to be an unquestionable premise,but Chinese American writers are in fact ambivalent toward Chinese culture.By revisiting Frank Chin’s persistent accusation of other Chinese American writers’“faking”of Chinese culture,this paper examines the changing attitudes of Chinese American writers toward Chinese culture and the quintessential Americanness of Chinese American writings.Through a comparative analysis of the Chinese elements in the texts of Frank Chin and Maxine Hong Kingston,it is argued that the kind of culture in Chinese American literature is an indigenous American product with a Chinesesounding name invented to survive America and therefore should be properly called(Chinese)American culture.In Chinese American literature,the Chinese elements are employed instrumentally as empowering ethnic markers to fortify the American cultural values at the core of this ethnic American culture.
