华裔美国女作家作品中的文化身份演变

发布时间：2024-02-28 23:24

　　生活在两种文化碰撞交融之间的华裔美国作家本身有着非常独特的文化身份,他们在不同文化之间不断协商自己的身份认同,也正因为此,他们的视角和写作本质上体现了文化间性。由此,本论文把华裔美国文学置于跨文化文学中来探讨。汤婷婷、谭恩美和任璧莲是华裔美国文学领域中的杰出代表,她们的作品都取得了巨大成功。本论文选取了汤婷婷的《女勇士》(1976),谭恩美的《喜福会》(1989),任璧莲的《典型的美国人》(1991)和《莫娜在希望之乡》(1996)展开文本分析。后殖民研究理论和跨文化研究理论组成了本论文的跨学科理论框架。基于该理论框架下的文本分析,本论文试图考察和分析华裔美国女作家作品中的文化身份演变,包括两层:一是华裔美国女作家作品中主要人物的文化身份演变,二是通过这些代表作品反映出来的华裔美国女作家自身的文化身份演变。本论文的论点是华裔美国女作家作品中的文化身份演变大致都经历了从单一身份认同到双文化身份认同。此外,汤婷婷和任璧莲的作品还进一步探寻了跨文化身份认同,其中,任璧莲和她的作品最具代表性。华裔美国女作家摆脱固定单一的文化身份认同的束缚,步步演进,继而开始认识和接受文化身份的流动性、灵活性和...

【文章页数】：109 页

【学位级别】：硕士

【文章目录】：
Acknowledgements
摘要
Abstract
Introduction
    1. Research Background
    2. Research Methodology
    3. Research Significance
    4. Thesis Structure
Chapter 1 Literature Review
    1.1 Studies on Chinese American Women Writers’ Works
    1.2 Studies on Cultural Identity in Chinese American Writers’ Works
Chapter 2 Theoretic Foundation
    2.1 Stuart Hall’s Cultural Identity Theory
    2.2 Homi Bhabha’s Theory of Cultural Hybridity
    2.3 Young Yun Kim’s Intercultural Identity/Personhood
Chapter 3 Identity of Being either Chinese or American
    3.1 Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club
        3.1.1 Chinese Mothers Holding onto Chinese Roots
        3.1.2 American Daughters Struggling in Their Lives
    3.2 Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior
        3.2.1 Chinese Mother Narrating the Old World
        3.2.2 American Daughter Caught in Between
    3.3 Gish Jen’s Typical American
        3.3.1 The New Immigrants: Ralph, Theresa, and Helen
        3.3.2 Turning into “Typical American”
Chapter 4 Identity of Being both Chinese and American
    4.1 Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club
        4.1.1 Mothers-Daughters’ Reconciliation
        4.1.2 Daughters Reclaiming Chinese Roots
    4.2 Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior
        4.2.1 Daughter Translating Chinese Stories into American Culture
        4.2.2 Mother-Daughter Co-Storytelling
    4.3 Gish Jen’s Typical American
        4.3.1 Family Thing: “The Chinese Yankees”
        4.3.2 Awakening: Childhood in China
Chapter 5 Identity of Becoming Increasingly Intercultural
    5.1 Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior
        5.1.1 Multicultural Integration: The Earth’s Dances
        5.1.2 “Home” beyond Culture: The Citizen of the Planet
    5.2 Gish Jen’s Mona in the Promised Land
        5.2.1 Crossing Boundary: Switching and Choosing One’s Identity
        5.2.2 Becoming instead of Being: Multicultural Hybridity
Chapter 6 Writers’ Evolving Process of Identity-Seeking
    6.1 Amy Tan’s “Chinese Characters and American Circumstances”
    6.2 Maxine Hong Kingston’s “We Belong to the Planet Now”
    6.3 Gish Jen’s “Possibilities despite the Limits”
Conclusion
References



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