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

摘要：

美国华裔女作家的作品反映出美国华裔女性的成长处于性别、种族、语言、文化等所构成的多重异质环境中。本文运用横向细读的方法,以美国华裔文学不同发展阶段的三位代表性女作家的作品——黄玉雪的《华女阿五》、汤亭亭的《女勇士》和伍慧明的《骨》为讨论对象,探讨美国华裔女作家如何以文学的成长叙事为手段,书写不同时期华裔女性的成长经验,塑造出一个生动鲜活的华裔女性形象序列,从而揭示美国华裔女作家在女性主体建构方面的历时性嬗变过程。华裔女性的成长之途由于三位作家的个体差异而呈现判然有别的叙事风景,这既符合性别表述的需要,也是时代文化影响的结果。

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》