Strategies of authorship by ethnic minorities: construction of identity by three Chinese-American writers.

Wong Yuen-wing Catherine.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 110-112).Abstracts in English and Chinese.Acknowledgements --- p.iAbstract --- p.ii摘要 --- p.ivIntroduction Ethnicity and Novel Writing in the Multicultural Society --- p.1Chapter Chapter One --- Working Against Assimilation: Reassurance of Her Chinese Cultural Ethnicity in Her Memoirs --- p.17Chapter Chapter Two --- Breaking the Mirage of the Assimilating Culture: Empowering One's Identity by Embracing One's Ethnic Culture --- p.46Chapter Chapter Three --- Emerging of Two Different Identities: Ethnicity Formation by Means of Adjustment --- p.74Conclusion Articulating One's Ethnicity: Moving to a Larger Self --- p.101Selected Bibliography --- p.10