Search For Identity Conflict Of Chinese And Western Cultures

Identity has a very important meaning for everyone, as a member of society, everyone expects to have an accurate understanding of self-identity and positioning. Therefore seek for identity has become a keen topic of contemporary literature. As American society ethnic minorities, long-term on the verge of mainstream American culture. Double discrimination by race and sex of Chinese American women are forced to become silent groups, it is difficult to make their voices. Face of Western media’s demonization of Chinese women, Chinese women did not escape the negative, choosing instead to use words to reshape the image of Chinese American women beautiful, subversive inherent thinking, build a new identity to the pen for Ge.In this paper, Chinese-American woman writer Amy Tan’s novel "The Joy Luck Club," "The Kitchen God’s Wife" and "The Bonesetter’s Daughter" as the main object of study in the early Chinese American woman writer Jade Snow Wong, Maxine Hong Kingston creative process of review and representative works on the basis of the analysis, to explore the works of Amy Tan’s way hard to seek self-identity of American Women. Article is divided into three main parts.Chapter One Chinese American women’s literature identity quest. First, the definition and the Chinese American Literature from the hardships of the road in the United States to do a brief introduction, followed by selection of early Chinese American women writers topaz snow and Maxine Hong Kingston is represented by two works on behalf of "Fifth Chinese Daughter" and "The Woman Warrior "the analysis, combined with the background of the two works come to less than ethnic identity in the search process.The second chapter of 1 Chinese and western identity dilemma of cracks. This section mainly Amy Tan works for women as research teams, through the work of women in the interpretation and analysis, to show that it is in a difficult situation between Chinese and Western cultures. By the first part of the interpretation of the works of Amy Tan, detailed portrait of the mother by the Chinese traditional culture in the United States suffered the embarrassment of life, vague understanding of self-identity; the second part describes the plight of her Chinese-American identity and suffered under the mainstream they do not agree with society; part Ⅲ describe conflicts and misunderstandings in different cultures grow between mother and daughter, so that the two sides do not communicate with each other.Chapter Ⅲ to Break the silence the identity of the refactoring. The first part introduces the self-identity of the mother of the search after the oppressed, reconstruction; the second part introduces her daughter after a long run-in, finally understanding accept each other, and self-identity with the accurate positioning. The third part is about the confrontation with the mother of his daughter in gradually understanding mother, and began to accept the Chinese traditional culture, to find a suitable identity in ethnic culture.The article tries to in-depth analysis of the works of Amy Tan, showing Chinese American women to pursue the process of self-identity, expect some help when faced with such problems overseas Chinese.