Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior: Chinese American Hybridity

Román García, Javier. (2023). Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior: Chinese American Hybridity Master Thesis, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (España). Facultad de Filología

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Título Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior: Chinese American Hybridity
Autor(es) Román García, Javier
Abstract The present study aims to explore Chinese American identity, analyzing Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts and drawing a comparison with contemporary examples of Chinese American identity. The main thesis of this research is to reveal whether Chinese American identity has evolved from the 1970s to nowadays, and discuss the factors which may have an influence on how Chinese Americans perceive themselves. The main two factors considered are the changing social environment within the United States in terms of race (internal dynamics); and the economic development and growing international influence of the People’s Republic of China (external dynamics). To this aim, I will address relevant concepts such as Gloria Andaldúa’s ‘border theory’ and Homi Bhabha’s ‘hybridity’, in order to position a third role within the ethnic black/white, minority/majority establishment. The State of the Art will introduce relevant research on Chinese American identity and Postcolonial theory. Ling-chi Wang will provide the theoretical framework through which to analyze some of the different stages in the development of Chinese American identity. Julia Lee and Bella Adam’s work on Maxine Hong Kingston’s oeuvre will be the basis to explore the themes discussed in The Woman Warrior as well as the historical and literary context in the second chapter. Finally, in the third chapter, I will present some contemporary examples of Chinese American identity in the United States media (film and stand-up comedy), and another set of examples of how the Chinese Diaspora is perceived in China. To conclude, I will briefly discuss how the Chinese Spanish identity is now emerging as a new reality. This study aims to show how Chinese American hybridity was a third pole within the white and black racial binary opposition, and how Chinese American identity evolves with the internal social dynamics within the United States, alongside the external fluctuation of China-U.S. relations; and aims to understand how modern Chinese Americans navigate their hybrid identity and perceive themselves in comparison to Kingston’s exploration of identity.
Notas adicionales Trabajo de Fin de Máster. Máster Universitario en Estudios Literarios y Culturales Ingleses y su Proyección Social. UNED
Materia(s) Filología
Palabra clave Chinese American identity
Maxine Hong Kingston
The Woman Warrior
Chinese American hybridity
Editor(es) Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (España). Facultad de Filología
Director/Tutor Ballesteros González, Antonio Andrés
Fecha 2023-03-14
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Identificador bibliuned:master-Filologia-ELyCIyPS-Jroman
http://e-spacio.uned.es/fez/view/bibliuned:master-Filologia-ELyCIyPS-Jroman
Idioma eng
Versión de la publicación acceptedVersion
Nivel de acceso y licencia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Tipo de recurso master Thesis
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