| Since the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement in the United States,Asian Americans have had an increasing awareness of racial and cultural identity.Being both American and nonwhite makes it possible to struggle to assert an ethnic identity.Such a marginal status provides them with the conditions for literary creation.In the early 1970s,a group of outstanding Chinese-American writers emerged in American literature,whose works paid more attention to ethnic identity issues.The Woman Warrior written by Maxine Hong Kingston is about Chinese Americans’ attempting to find a voice that discerns "what is Chinese" from "what is Chinese American".The portrayal of life experiences between parents as Chinese immigrants and children as Chinese Americans,the portrayal of the narrator’s effort to sort what is true from paradoxes and contradictions,reveals the gender and racial discrimination they have suffered from.The addition of Chinese elements has attracted widespread attention and the novel has an important position in mainstream American literature and even in global literature.As ethnic minorities,Chinese Americans are marginalized,discriminated and excluded in the aspects of politics,economy,and race.They are also struggling to find their own unique cultural identity in the background of two cultures.Therefore,they must find a way to construct their own special identity.The research on the basis of the theoretical concepts of Homi Bhabha’s "Hybrid","The Third Space" and the "in betweenness",analyzes the hybrid of Chinese English with authentic American English,Chinese traditional customs and culture with American culture and real life.Kingston utilized the "in betweenness" of culture,by discarding cultural dross and making strategic of the essence of her mother culture,to break the opposite relationship between the East and the West,to resist the patriarchy and sexism in China,to oppose to racism in the United States,and is transformed into an authentic American. |
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