Pursuing The "Third Place" Based On The "Hybridity"

As a second-generation of Chinese American, Maxine Hong Kingston is a "marginal people ". Such a situation not only provides her a lot of creative ideas and materials, but also makes her have more understanding of Chinese culture and Western culture. Since her masterwork, The Woman Warrior, has been published, she has received a number of United States national awards. Since then her work has become the focus of American literature, and also has given Maxine Hong Kingston an important status in American literarure. Based on the description of the heroine's growing experience, the novel reveals the process of growing of Chinese-American. And also in the work, Kingston has given us a vivid picture that ttheir cognition of alienating the two-cultures has become weekened, and they gradually have begun to seek for a way to mingline the two cultures to gain a harmonious state, and try to establish their own unique cultural identity between two cultures.Based on the post-colonial writer Homi Bhabha's theory of Hybridity and Third Space, the author here intends to explore Kingston's cultural view reflected from The Woman Warrior. Her views are to propose and pursue a cultural Third Place in order to realize Chinese-American's reconstruction of their cultural identity and the fusion and harmony between the two cultures.Part 1 of this article is for preface, and this including three parts. The first chapter are the introductions of Kingston and her work. The second chapter is for the literature review. And the third chapter mentions the innovation and writing angle of this thesis.The second part is the body part, classified into five chapters. Firstly, in chapter one, the author just introduces Homi Bhabha's Hybrid and Third Space theory. In the second chapter, combines with the Woman Warrior, the author probes into the text of Maxine hong Kingston's cognition courses of Chinese culture and American culture, and here he author considers the courses as her pursuing of the "Third Space". These trips are the Chinese American step out the situation of cultural differences and conflicts to pursue the fusion between the two cultures, and then gaining a harmonious cultural state to accomplish the construction of "third space". The third chapter investigates the narrative strategies that the book takes, maintaining that they best illustrate that Kingston has applied her third-space cultural view to practice. Kingston adopts traditional Chinese narrative skills in the American background and her work also shows the western postmodernism writing style. In chapter four, the author just combines the text to brings out the crucial points, which are to seek for mingling the two kinds of culture to gain a harmonious state and try to establish their own unique Chinese-American cultural identity. The content of the last chapter is the author's rethinking of Maxine hong Kingston's cultural view. And here, the author from historical origin, the author furtherly summarized Chinese Americans' confusion and their growth processes through historic and some other angles. Also, the author mentions practical significance of the Woman Warrior.Finally, the thesis forms the conclusion that based on transcending the boundary of nation,culture and language, Kingston is arduously to pursue an ethnic and cultural third space through her writing. She not only has provided a workable solution to Chinese immigrants'predicament but also has given attestation that the solution can be accessed to.