关键词: 美国华裔女作家; 成长叙事; 主体建构; 《华女阿五》; 《女勇士》; 《骨》

Abstract:

Female Chinese Americans grow up in multi-heterogeneous environments formed by gender, ethnic, linguistic, cultural and other elements, which are reflected in the works of female Chinese American writers. In order to explore how female Chinese American writers adopt growth narrative as a means to represent those painful growing-up experiences of female Chinese Americans, this paper conducts a close reading of three representative female writers’ works from different periods in Chinese American literary history, including Fifth Chinese Daughter by Jade Snow Wong, The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston and Bone by Fae Myenne Ng. By digging up the deeply hidden growing-up history of female Chinese Americans within the works mentioned above, it turns out that female Chinese American writers successfully create a vivid female Chinese imagery serial which corresponds to growing-up experiences of female Chinese in different periods. In this way, these female Chinese American writers reveal a process of diachronic evolution of female Chinese Americans’ subjectivity construction. Owing to different backgrounds and individual diversity, these three writers’ growth narratives are quite different from each other, which not only complies with the requirement of gender expression, but also demonstrates the influence of time and culture.

Keywords: female Chinese American writers; growth narrative; subjectivity construction; Fifth Chinese Daughter; The Woman Warrior; Bone