The Female Idenity Confusion And Search Of Asian American Literature

1960s, the development of civil rights movement and the feminist movement improve the status of ethnic minorities and women. At that time, Asian American Literature plays an important role in American Literature. Besides to express the identity confusions of Asian Americans, their works also focus on the identity reconstruction of Asian American ethnic.This study selected The Woman Warrior, which wrote by Maxine Hong Kingston and Dictee, which wrote by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. In using parallelism study to analysis the identity problem. This paper consists of three parts. The first section is the brief introduction of two works, two writers and previous researches. The second section is about the identity confusion of two works. This part is mainly discuss the aphasia and living dilemma between American culture and motherland culture of Chinese American women and Korean American women. The third section focus on the strategy of identity reconstruction. In this two works, Maxine Hong Kingston and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha through writing the stories of Asian American women to resist America mainstream discourse. By writing personal history to express the national history.