Seeking the legitimacy of representing themselves is one of the major missions that Chinese American writer Kingston sends on her main characters in her novels. To voice his minority subjectivities, Wittman Ah Sing, t...Seeking the legitimacy of representing themselves is one of the major missions that Chinese American writer Kingston sends on her main characters in her novels. To voice his minority subjectivities, Wittman Ah Sing, the protagonist in Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book, needs to protest the emasculated stereotype culturally applied to him, a Chinese American man, in a way of changing his identities. This multiple-faced Wittman Ah Sing manifests Kingston's objection to any singular or fixed subjectivity of Chinese Americans in her anti-racist posture.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
In The Woman Warrior, Kingston revealed the confl icts between Chinese culture and American culture under the complex social and cultural backgrounds and made her own exploration for cultural balance and integration.
The Woman Warrior is the first literary work of Maxine Hong Kingston. As the winner of the lifetime achievement award in America, her works attracted attention from home and abroad. Numerous scholars studied this work...The Woman Warrior is the first literary work of Maxine Hong Kingston. As the winner of the lifetime achievement award in America, her works attracted attention from home and abroad. Numerous scholars studied this work from different per?spectives like narration, culture. Female characters are the major concern of this paper. By analyzing the female characters in the book, this paper aims at having a better understanding of the feminist thought in this work.展开更多
文摘Seeking the legitimacy of representing themselves is one of the major missions that Chinese American writer Kingston sends on her main characters in her novels. To voice his minority subjectivities, Wittman Ah Sing, the protagonist in Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book, needs to protest the emasculated stereotype culturally applied to him, a Chinese American man, in a way of changing his identities. This multiple-faced Wittman Ah Sing manifests Kingston's objection to any singular or fixed subjectivity of Chinese Americans in her anti-racist posture.
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.
文摘In The Woman Warrior, Kingston revealed the confl icts between Chinese culture and American culture under the complex social and cultural backgrounds and made her own exploration for cultural balance and integration.
文摘The Woman Warrior is the first literary work of Maxine Hong Kingston. As the winner of the lifetime achievement award in America, her works attracted attention from home and abroad. Numerous scholars studied this work from different per?spectives like narration, culture. Female characters are the major concern of this paper. By analyzing the female characters in the book, this paper aims at having a better understanding of the feminist thought in this work.
