A Study Of The Hybridizing Strategy In Ruthanne Lum McCunn's Wooden Fish Songs

Ruthanne Lum McCunn is the author of fiction and nonfiction works that strive to capture true-to-life experiences of Asian Americans. In Wooden Fish Songs, the women from different races cultivated the protagonist Lue Gim Gong like Spiritual Mothers. Even if they were from different races, their life was all with great suffering. The desperate situations they encountered were different, but the great pain they endured in this progress was the same. Lue Gin Gong was a hybrid expert, both his success and his product-the hybrid orange are real successful examples of hybridity. They are the symbol of the hybrid culture in the future. It will take a longtime to fulfill this dream, but it can be realized to a certainty.This thesis analyzed Lue Gim Gong's life as an expert on experimenting on cross-breed fruits and the life of the three women narrators from different cultural and ethnic background. Through studying the hybridizing process the author organized in Wooden Fish Songs, the thesis intends to provide a good example of the formation of hybridity in which the characteres gain expectations of the racial equality from their hardship. As a mixed-blood of European and Chinese, Ruthanne Lum McCunn takes the intermingling of different races in America as a reality, which manifests that Chinese Americans are the integral part of American society, as well as black and white Americans.