ตะวันออกในตะวันตก : ภาพลักษณ์ความเป็นจีนในนวนิยายของนักเขียนสตรีอเมริกันเชื้อสายจีน

• Main Author: นิภาภัทร อภิภัทรพาณิชย์
• Other Authors: ตรีศิลป์ บุญขจร
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: Thai
• Published: จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย 2001
• Subjects: นักประพันธ์อเมริกันเชื้อสายจีน; นักประพันธ์สตรีอเมริกัน; วรรณกรรมอเมริกัน; สตรีอเมริกันเชื้อสายจีน; สตรีในวรรณคดี; Chinese American authors; Chinese American women; Women in literature; Women authors, American; American literature
• Online Access: https://digiverse.chula.ac.th/Info/item/dc:56084
• Institution: Chulalongkorn University

The objective of this thesis is to study the Chinses images in the works of four Chinese American women writers, namely Jade Snow Wong’s Fifth Chinese Daughter, Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghost, Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God’s Wife, and The Hundred Secret Senses, and Fae Myenne Ng’s Bone. Social background of the Chinese immigrants in the US as well as the development of Chinese-American literature will be studied to provide deeper understanding of the status of the ethnic Chinese. The Chinese images presented in these six works can be viewed from two angles. Firstly, there are images of the ethnic Chinese as members of a minority group, who migrated to the US during the Gold Rush era. These "minority" images are portrayed to present the desire for individuality, to maintain the Chinese identity and to gain acceptance as Chinese-Americans as opposed to Americans in the mainstream society. Secondly, these works abound in images of Chinese women, which can be categorized into three types: the stereotypes of Chinese women as victims of men and as traditional Chinese mothers, the American-born Chinese of the "new generation who assert their individuality, and the Chinese Americans who seek for a balance between American and Chinese cultures. In these varied representations of women of Chinese descent, one can see the change in the status of Chinese women, from being oppressed to being defiant, from being the loser to being the victor.