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Chinese American Female’s Identity
Establishment in The Woman Warrior
Abstract: Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior is a milestone of Chinese American literature and a masterpiece of feminism. This literary classic contains a series of themes, such as gender, race and culture. With the imaginative fiction and concise line-drawing technique, it exhibits the childhood of a little girl in American Chinatown and the living status of the women around her. According to the different features of self-identity seeking and establishment, the author will divide the female identity establishment and seeking of The Woman Warrior into three stages, that is primitive stage, self-improving stage and self-strengthening stage, and then analyze three typical female images of each stage. From the perspective of feminist criticism, androgyny and deconstruction respectively, the author will investigate the characteristics of each stage, the methods of different identity establishment and the practical meaning of this work.
Key Words: The Woman Warrior; Chinese American female; identity establishment; feminist criticism; androgyny; deconstruction
论《女勇士》中华裔女性的自我身份构建
摘 要：汤亭亭的《女勇士》是华裔美国文学的里程碑，也是女权主义的代表作。作品探讨了性别、种族、文化等多种主题。通过极富想象力的虚构与简洁的白描手法，作者展示了一个生活在美国唐人街华人圈中的小女孩的童年生活及她周围女性的现实生活。根据书中女性身份探寻与自建的不同特点，笔者将把书中女性的身份探寻与自建分为自在自然、自知
自觉和自强自为三个阶段，并选取三个阶段的三位典型女性进行分析。通过女性主义批评、双性同体及解构主义理论，笔者旨在研究各阶段的特点、各阶段身份自建的方式并总结该作品的现实意义。
关键词：女勇士；华裔女性；身份构建；女性主义批评；双性同体；解构
CONTENTS
1. Introduction…………………………………………………………1
1.1 The Background of the Chinese American Literature…………1
1.2 Maxine Hong Kingston and The Woman Warrior……………………………2
1.3 The Methodolodies and Purpose of The Thesis…………………………………3
2. The Beginning of Identity Establishment……………………………4
2.1 The Background and Feature of Primitive Stage……………………………….4
2.2 Theory Introduction: Feminist Criticism……………………………………….4
2.3 The Tragedy of No Name Woman………….…………………………………5
3. The Development of Identity Establishment………………………8
3.1 The Background and Feature of Self-Improving Stage………………………8
3.2 Theory Introduction: Androgyny………………………………………………8
3.3 The Rebellion of Fa Mu Lan………………………………………………….9
4. The Accomplishment of Identity Establishment………………….12
4.1 The Background and Feature of Self-Strengthening Stage…………………….12
4.2 Theory Introduction: Deconstuction……………………………………………12
4.3 The Assimilation of Ts’ai Yen…………………………………………………13
5. Conclusion…………………………………………………………15
Bibliography…………………………………………………………….19
