《血统文化身份与美国化(美国华裔小说主题研究)》(作者丁夏林)对所选定的12部华裔美国英文小说(包括传记)中的族裔经验与文化认同进行系统考察,旨在揭示其对作品人物的美国化过程的促进或抑制作用,探讨文学人物乃至作家本人的“美国化”运行轨迹,适合从事相关研究工作的人员参考阅读。
《血统文化身份与美国化(美国华裔小说主题研究)》(作者丁夏林)共分三章,另有一个绪论和结语,借用索罗斯曾经提出的“血统世系”与“文化认同”这两个概念,对所选定的12部华裔美国英文小说(包括传记)中的族裔经验与文化认同进行系统考察,《血统文化身份与美国化(美国华裔小说主题研究)》旨在揭示其对作品人物的美国化过程的促进或抑制作用,探讨文学人物乃至作家本人的“美国化”运行轨迹。
Acknowledgments
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter One The Cultural Politics of the Generation Gap
Good Medicine Tastes Bitter: Cultural Identity (Re)formation in
Louis Chu's Eat a Bowl of Tea
Like Father, Like Son?: Intergenerational Conflict in Pardee
Lowe's Father and Glorious Descendant
The beginning is hers, the ending, mine: Mother-Daughter Talking
Stories in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior
Your mother is in your blood: The Mother-Daughter Bond in Amy
Tan's The Joy Luck Club
Chapter Two The Politics and Art of Claiming America
The Making of an American: A New Historicist Interpretation of
Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men
From Cultural Nationalism to Americanism: Frank Chin's Donald
Duk in Perspective
Rebel with a Cause: Jade Snow Wong's American Dream in her Fifth
Chinese Daughter
Shawn Wong's Quest for a Lonely Heritage in his Homebase
Chapter Three Americanization and its Discontents
America was no America: Cultural Disillusionment in Gish Jen's
Typical American
Paper is more precious than blood': Alienation and Abjection in Fae
Myenne Ng's Bone
Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child?: Americanization as Violence in
Gus Lee's China Boy
Nature versus Nurture: An Anatomy of Americanization in Eric Liu's
The Accidental Asian
Conclusion
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