Scholars of Chinese diasporic women’s literature have usually situated it in Western culture. The audience, market, and interpretive community associated with their publication have been implicitly assumed to be based in the West/the United States. Recently published novels by American women of Chinese descent have been received by reviewers as unproblematically “American” works. This paper examines the construction of the West in two novels. Lin Tai-Yee’ s The Eavesdropper was written by a Chinese national exile ; Gish Jen’s Typical American by a Chinese diasporic U.S. national. Both novels take their referential clues from and are embedded in semiotic systems that are non-European. Appropriating the English language, however, they appropr...
This paper attempts to examine a few related cases in which Chinese American literature draws on its...
This dissertation is on foreign images--of China and the West--created by Lin Shu, the first major t...
This dissertation aims to claim immigrant literature as an essential part of Chinese American studie...
Five autobiographies/autobiographical novels, written and published by Chinese American women writer...
This thesis argues against the Sinocentric school of thought that perceives Sinophone literary produ...
A Chinese American is discernibly Chinese by ethnicity and American by nationality. The affiliation ...
This thesis is a critical analysis of memoirs and novels written by American women writers during th...
Magister Artium - MAThe literature of the Chinese diaspora in America is marked by a tension between...
Since the late 1980s, Chinese immigrant writers’ representations of China have been credited with “a...
This thesis examines certain contemporary inflections among Asian American self-referential writings...
Entre la seconde moitié du XIXème siècle et le début du XXIème siècle, les minorités Sino-américaine...
Based on a comparative discourse analysis of the 2001 English translation of the pioneering “beauty ...
The potential confrontation of Oriental and Occidental values represents one of the most important ...
Between the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 21st, Chinese American minoriti...
This dissertation aims to claim immigrant literature as an essential part of Chinese American studie...
This paper attempts to examine a few related cases in which Chinese American literature draws on its...
This dissertation is on foreign images--of China and the West--created by Lin Shu, the first major t...
This dissertation aims to claim immigrant literature as an essential part of Chinese American studie...
Five autobiographies/autobiographical novels, written and published by Chinese American women writer...
This thesis argues against the Sinocentric school of thought that perceives Sinophone literary produ...
A Chinese American is discernibly Chinese by ethnicity and American by nationality. The affiliation ...
This thesis is a critical analysis of memoirs and novels written by American women writers during th...
Magister Artium - MAThe literature of the Chinese diaspora in America is marked by a tension between...
Since the late 1980s, Chinese immigrant writers’ representations of China have been credited with “a...
This thesis examines certain contemporary inflections among Asian American self-referential writings...
Entre la seconde moitié du XIXème siècle et le début du XXIème siècle, les minorités Sino-américaine...
Based on a comparative discourse analysis of the 2001 English translation of the pioneering “beauty ...
The potential confrontation of Oriental and Occidental values represents one of the most important ...
Between the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 21st, Chinese American minoriti...
This dissertation aims to claim immigrant literature as an essential part of Chinese American studie...
This paper attempts to examine a few related cases in which Chinese American literature draws on its...
This dissertation is on foreign images--of China and the West--created by Lin Shu, the first major t...
This dissertation aims to claim immigrant literature as an essential part of Chinese American studie...