飲食與華裔女性身份建構(gòu)——以《華女阿伍》和《喜福會》為中心的討論_22816.pdf

1、Jade Snow Wong(1922-2006) and Amy Tan(1952-) are famous Chinese American writers.Since Jade Snow Wong's Fifth Chinese Daughter(1945) and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club(1989) were published, the two novels have been Chinese

2、American literature classics and have attracted many critics' attention.Some critics have explored the conflicts between Chinese culture and western culture,mother-and-daughter relationship, and cultural identity.Other r

3、esearchers have studied the two novels from the perspectives of cultural criticism and gender.Few articles or thesis have debated the Chinese American women's identity from the perspectives of food.The article, based on

4、feminist theory and theories about racism,explores the relationship of diet and construction of Chinese American women
　　identity, revealing the significance of food in construction of Chinese American women's identit

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　　The article firstly introduces the purpose and significance of the topic of the relationship between food and construction of Chinese American women's identity and then deal with it in three chapters.Chapter One

6、interprets the relationship between food and humans, and women, and Chinese American women respectively.Chapter Two discusses how food constructs the Chinese American women's ethnic identity from Chinese American women's

7、 attitudes towards food which change frequently from their love for Chinese food, to their tiredness of Chinese food, to their choosing American food, finally to their accepting Chinese foodas well as western food.The ch

8、ange of their attitudes towards food reveals that they experience a difficult process of questing cultural identity, and ultimately recognize their own unique cultural identity---accepting the best quality of Chinese cul

9、ture while
　　adapting to American life.Chapter Three examines howfood constructs Chinese American women's gender identity.Food awakens Chinese American women's feminist consciousness and Chinese American women decide