China Men, the famous literary work of Maxine Hong Kingston, has received sustained applause since its first publishment. In this book, by picturing the drifting situation of life that China Men have experienced in Am...China Men, the famous literary work of Maxine Hong Kingston, has received sustained applause since its first publishment. In this book, by picturing the drifting situation of life that China Men have experienced in America, the author shows us the plight in which China Men were enslaved and forced to keep silent in America. This paper tries to analyze the book China Men from the perspective of structuralism narratology in three aspects, including hybridity of different literary forms, cake-like structure and spatial framework. That is,it focuses on how narrative strategies expose the representative events and main subjects at that period of time, which will be helpful for readers to understand the identity issue of Chinese Americans as well.展开更多
文摘China Men, the famous literary work of Maxine Hong Kingston, has received sustained applause since its first publishment. In this book, by picturing the drifting situation of life that China Men have experienced in America, the author shows us the plight in which China Men were enslaved and forced to keep silent in America. This paper tries to analyze the book China Men from the perspective of structuralism narratology in three aspects, including hybridity of different literary forms, cake-like structure and spatial framework. That is,it focuses on how narrative strategies expose the representative events and main subjects at that period of time, which will be helpful for readers to understand the identity issue of Chinese Americans as well.
