Amy Tan And Yan Geling Novel Comparative Study

Amy Tan and Yan Geling,the two from the same period female writers, born indifferent countries, who have different growing environments. However, Yan Gelinghas emigrated,and Amy Tan has complex affection to the Chinese culture,which makethe two female writers’ horizon have the same elements. And their literary creationspresents diverse and heavy characteristic for their physical and mental experience ofrich. The comparative study about their creation will have scalable depth of meaningand value.In this paper, the two writers will be the research object, from a close reading ofthe text analysis the character image mold to discuss immigration culture identity intheir fictions, as well as the two writers in creative ways of similarities anddifferences.The paper is divided into four parts narrative.The introduction of Amy Tanand Yan Geling’s life and creation,summarizes the research about them in academiccircles, to comb out the blind spots of the academic studies in the presence.The firstchapter on Amy Tan and Yan Geling’s novel characters shaped, especially under theinfluence of Eastern and Western culture by something different, how the two writersportrayed.and how the two writers from the female perspective to write characters ofdifferent gender.The second chapter discusses the self identity problems in differentculture. From Chinese immigrants’ historical background to peek these immigrants lackof self-identity.In view of the different periods of Chinese immigrants, their self-identityawareness is not exactly the same, there are also great differences in the performanceand the reason of lost.And in the western world how to find or remodel self-identity inAmy Tan and Yan Geling ’s works have similar but not identical writing.The thirdchapter use the theory of narration and biography literature theory to analyze thedifferent narrative mode of Amy Tan and Yan Geling’s works. The narrative of thedeath, the narrative of Chinese cultural elements, the autobiographical narrative in thetwo writers’works exist but the content is different, which has research value.Amy Tan and Yan Geling’s works have their own characteristic style and havetheir own way to show the living and desting of the overseas Chinese, the various manifestations also contains their understanding about the humanity essence.Thecomparative study of these two writers’s literature creation can obtain more profoundinterpretation about their works,and decipher the human nature.