A Study Of Chinese American Women's Writing In The Context Of Dual Marginalized Culture

Among the writers of Asian American literature, Chinese American females make up the largest and most influential group of Asian American writers. Jade Snow Wong, Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan are their outstanding representatives. Based on their own experience, observation and reflection, they have managed to produce a great host of astonishing literary works, whose influence is far more outstanding than the male writers' works. Typical works of the three above-mentioned representative female writers are taken into research, namely, Fifth Chinese Daughter, the Woman Warrior and the Kitchen God's Wife. Spivak's post-colonialism feminism will be adopted to explain these three works to represent the development of the whole Chinese-American literature. Based on the analysis of the three works, further research will be carried out on the growth of Chinese-American women in America within such special cultural context.Around the main line, this dissertation consists of three parts. The first part is the second chapter of the dissertation, which simply describes the survival situation of Chinese-American females, the development track of their literature and the unique characteristics of female writing styles. The third part is the fourth chapter, the very core of the thesis, which mainly concerns itself with the way Chinese-American women build up their subject consciousness. Such process has been divided into three stages:from the silent and lonely, the pioneers of the self-development to the advocates of deconstructing "others" and seeking for equal rights with the men. The changes of these women's free and subject consciousness stem from the special dual marginalized culture between Chinese and American.