A Study On The Writing Of American Dominican Immigrants In Junot Díaz's Novels

Junot Díaz(1968—) is an American immigration writer and is native to Dominica.As a leader of the emerging immigrant writers,although the number of his works is small(two short story collections and one novel),he has written the inner life of immigrant groups with extremely vivid brushstrokes.His work is of high quality and has been recognized by critics.His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Association Award.This article takes two of his short story collections Drown,This Is How You Lose Her,and a novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao as research objects,and tries to explore the unique significance of his immigration writing.This thesis is mainly composed of three parts: introduction,subject and conclusion.The introduction includes the introduction of Díaz and his works,the current status of domestic and foreign research,and perspectives and methods of this thesis.The main body of the thesis is divided into three chapters.The first part mainly starts from the content of the works,and analyzes the unique meaning of Díaz's underlying writing.The second part mainly discusses the identity of the immigrant group in Díaz's works.The immigrant group in the author's works is anxious about the ambiguity of their identity,which makes them unable to integrate into the mainstream society.In order to cope with the identity problem of the self,the immigrant group forms an imaginary community in the "third space",thereby positioning itself and forming a new identity in the "third space".The third part explores gender issues in the works from the perspective of gender relations.The construction of the self-identity under the attention of the patriarchal society has oppressed both women and men,and the new gender identity formed by the growing second generation of immigrants is a resistance to the patriarchal society.This writing underlines Díaz' aspirations for an acentric gender relationship.