As a non-mainstream group with a large proportion in the pluralistic society of the United States,the literary forms of the black and Asian groups have always attracted much attention.The Bluest Eyes and Everything I ...As a non-mainstream group with a large proportion in the pluralistic society of the United States,the literary forms of the black and Asian groups have always attracted much attention.The Bluest Eyes and Everything I Never Told You appeared in different social times and told about different ethnic and cultural backgrounds,they both involved the exclusion of non-mainstream ethnic groups by the mainstream white society and the denial and loss of personal identity of the two different ethnic groups in the face of the mainstream culture.This paper will make a comparative analysis of these two works.By comparing the loss of self-racial identity of the protagonists in the two novels,this paper will make an in-depth discussion of the survival status of African Americans and Asians,and reveal the self-identity loss of black people and Asian people in the mainstream culture.Through comparative analysis,more scholars pay attention to this issue,which is of great practical significance to further understand the literary dynamics of African American and Asian ethnic groups.展开更多
Chinese American writer Celeste Ng has portrayed images of ＂marginal man＂ in her novel Everything I Never Told You. Centering the narration on the death of Lydia, with her own immigrant identity and cross-ethnical m...Chinese American writer Celeste Ng has portrayed images of ＂marginal man＂ in her novel Everything I Never Told You. Centering the narration on the death of Lydia, with her own immigrant identity and cross-ethnical marriage, Celeste Ng has penetrated into the marginal culture in American society 1970s, exposing characters＇ marginal condition caused by ethnical identity, gender and sexual orientation.展开更多
Celeste Ng is a contemporary Chinese-American female writer.Her novel Everything I Never Told You won the first place in Amazon.com’s No.1 Best Book of 2014.Her gentle and delicate style of writing,precise and restra...Celeste Ng is a contemporary Chinese-American female writer.Her novel Everything I Never Told You won the first place in Amazon.com’s No.1 Best Book of 2014.Her gentle and delicate style of writing,precise and restrained diction and serious themes aroused strong repercussions.This paper is proposed to analyze the deconstruction tendencies of the novel from the perspective of deconstruction,showing absurdities and harm of monism incisively and vividly through the analysis of the following three parts of binary oppositions in the novel:males and females,strong cultures and weak cultures,parents and children,which illustrate the reconstruction rather than destruction and provide the possibility of rebuilding the identity and culture of the Asian-American.展开更多
文摘As a non-mainstream group with a large proportion in the pluralistic society of the United States,the literary forms of the black and Asian groups have always attracted much attention.The Bluest Eyes and Everything I Never Told You appeared in different social times and told about different ethnic and cultural backgrounds,they both involved the exclusion of non-mainstream ethnic groups by the mainstream white society and the denial and loss of personal identity of the two different ethnic groups in the face of the mainstream culture.This paper will make a comparative analysis of these two works.By comparing the loss of self-racial identity of the protagonists in the two novels,this paper will make an in-depth discussion of the survival status of African Americans and Asians,and reveal the self-identity loss of black people and Asian people in the mainstream culture.Through comparative analysis,more scholars pay attention to this issue,which is of great practical significance to further understand the literary dynamics of African American and Asian ethnic groups.
文摘Chinese American writer Celeste Ng has portrayed images of ＂marginal man＂ in her novel Everything I Never Told You. Centering the narration on the death of Lydia, with her own immigrant identity and cross-ethnical marriage, Celeste Ng has penetrated into the marginal culture in American society 1970s, exposing characters＇ marginal condition caused by ethnical identity, gender and sexual orientation.
基金Research for the above paper has been supported by Project of Humanities and Social Sciences,Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China:“A Study of Chinese Culture and its Images in US-American Newspapers in the New Media Era”(Project No.19YJCZH162)University-Industry Collaborative Education Program,Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China(Project No.20190215002)Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Project No.2020MS056).
文摘Celeste Ng is a contemporary Chinese-American female writer.Her novel Everything I Never Told You won the first place in Amazon.com’s No.1 Best Book of 2014.Her gentle and delicate style of writing,precise and restrained diction and serious themes aroused strong repercussions.This paper is proposed to analyze the deconstruction tendencies of the novel from the perspective of deconstruction,showing absurdities and harm of monism incisively and vividly through the analysis of the following three parts of binary oppositions in the novel:males and females,strong cultures and weak cultures,parents and children,which illustrate the reconstruction rather than destruction and provide the possibility of rebuilding the identity and culture of the Asian-American.
