Identity Construction Of Gay Asian American Men In Chay Yew’s Porcelain And A Language Of Their Own

Since 1980 s, more and more Americans of non-Anglo Saxons come onto the stage of American drama. The multi-cultural movement makes the ethnic dramas become of the heated topic and the focus of dramatic study. The homosexual dramas also arrest much attention. Chinese American dramatist Chay Yew is another renowned Asian American dramatist after David Huang and an important figure in modern American Drama. As both a dramatist and director, he is well known for writing about the living situation of Asian diasporas marginalized by American mainstream society and concerning about the minority homosexuals and AIDS group considered to be heterogeneous. This thesis intends to study the first two plays of his famous homosexual trilogy Whitelands--Porcelain, A Language of Their Own and the Half Lives. Based on Edward Said’s and Homi K. Bhabha’s post-colonialism theories and Queer theories, the thesis proposes to examine the marginalization confronted by Gay Asian American protagonists in Chay Yew’s Porcelain and A Language of Their Own, and explore their self-value crises in modern love market. In the end, the author intends to seek out how the protagonists construct their Gay Asian American identity.