Analysis Of Family Tragedy In Fae Myenne Ng's Bone And Its Causes

Fae Myenne Ng is an up-rising star among the Chinese-American woman writers in the recent years. Her representative work, Bone, which has won the nomination of Faulkner Novel Prize and has been included in the Pushcart Prize Anthology, reaffirms her position in Chinese American literature.However, most of the researchers abroad and at home mainly focus on analysis of the cultural identity, characters image, textual construction and cultural conflict, no one has studied deeply the family tragedy which runs through the whole novel and the root causes of the tragedy. This thesis tries to expose the hard experience and predicament of the Chinese American in the United States through a deep analysis of the tragedy of the Leong family. This thesis not only analyses the tragedy of the two generations of the Leong family from a perspective of racism and cultural conflict, but also uncovers the unjust treatment and hard lives the Chinese American suffered through the revelation of the living circumstances of Chinese Americans, including historical and social conditions. Therefore, this thesis exposes profoundly the predicament of Chinese Americans as weak minorities in the United States where advocates the co-existence of multiculturalism.Bone tells about a tragedy of a Chinese immigrant family life in the Chinatown, which begins from the suicide of the middle daughter, Ona. The author tries to find out the reason of Ona's suicide through her intermittent recollection of the family's memories. The personal tragedy is also a national history of striving, struggling, defeating and disillusioning of the Chinese American on the alien land over the past century and a half.