Context Of Heterogeneous Cultural Identity Writing

Generally speaking, immigrants must face the difficulty of dual culture. When they are in the alien culture context, they can not thoroughly surpass the statute of the original culture because of the potential function of maternal culture. Therefore, when the original culture meets with the alien culture, the course of estrangement, examination and approval will be formed. Chinese American women writers have to bear a double pressure as an ethnic group: the native conception of male dominance and leads to double marginality. This remains the enchantment and nature of Chinese American women writing.From the postcolonial and feminist perspective, the thesis intends to study the construction of the identity of Chinese American women and their works. The study objects are restricted to the modern Chinese American women writers and their texts, including the women writers of 1960's from Taiwan and Hong Kong, the women writers who emerged in 1970's, and the women writers after 1980's from the mainland. The thesis mainly focuses on and analyzes the works by Yu Lihua, Maxine Hong Kingston, Yan Geling, the subtle difference among literature and civilization representations of these female writers, and tries to illuminate the pluralistic composition of the modern female literature in U.S, and expound the tendency of their identity seeking.