Chapter 1 An Overview of Chinese American Literature
1.1 General Overview of Chinese Americans in the U.S
1.2 The Emergency and Exuberance of Chinese American Literature
1.3 Maxine Hong Kingston as the Leading Figure of Chinese Americal Literature
1.4 Studies on Maxine Hong Kingston's Works
1.5 The Identity Politics in Kingston's Works
Chapter 2 Fictionlized History:Historical Writing as Counter-discourse
2.1 Ethmic History and Individual Identity
2.2 Photography and Minority Historical Documentation
2.3 Kingston's Fictionalized Accoubt of Herf Ethnic History
2.4 Manipulation of the Whites and the Absence of the Chinese Americans
2.5 The History of Chinese Americans and the Personal Photos-A Past Deliberately Forgotten
2.6 Photos as a Means of Propaganda-The Demonized Cihinese American
Chapter 3 The Pressure of Assimilatio-Movie as the Message
3.1 The Magnified Physical Features-The Interaction between Ethnical Identity and Screen Image
3.2 The Cinematic Depictions of Chinese Americans and the Effects
3.3 The Impulse of Imitation and the Pressure of Assimilation-The Semiotic Persuasion
3.4 The Interplay of Ethmicity and Gender and Its Effect on the Identity Formation
Chapter 4 Breaking the Silence-Oral Narrative in Kingston's Text
4.1 The Significance of Story-telling
4.2 The Inheritance adn Reinvention of Chinese Traditional Oral Culture
4.3 The Features of Oral Narrative-interactiveness and Participativeness
4.4 The Imetation of Oral Narrative Structure in China Men
4.5 The Omniscient Motherly Narrator-Guanyin
4.6 The Texts Full of Sounds and Fury
Chapter 5 Pear Garden in the West
5.1 Theater as The Convergence of Heterogeneous Discourses
5.2 Theater as Identity-shaping Force
5.3 Chinese Stofry-telling Tradition as the Journey
5.4 Theater as a Sign of Cultural Regeneration
5.5 Theater as the Chmmunal Effort
Chapter 6 Conclusions
Notes
Appendices
References
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