Out Ethnicity Fence Creation: A New Generation Of Chinese American Feminist Novels

The post1970’s witnessed a flourish of the Chinese American literature by women writers as well as its research. The backgrounds and contents of the works mirror a keen awareness of the ethnic identity and the assertion of the rights of the writers. Cultural and political elements in these works published between the beginning of the flourish and the1980’s mark them out from other literature works because the assertion of ethnicity and political rights became the common pursuit of all these writers during the decade. Likewise, the analysis of the ethnicity and ethnic politics has dominated the research and the criticism in the field while scant attention was paid to the analysis of the aesthetics values and the individuality of the works.The last20years has seen a rapid increase in the number of works by women writers of Chinese descent, ushering in a booming era of Chinese American literature.The new generation of women writers are more concerned about developing styles of their own and ways of expressing themselves. Instead of focusing on a grand narration, they write more about experiences and feelings of their own, with the spiritual homeland as the theme, on matter it’s a story about China or one about a Chinese American. All their strategies of narration show, without no exception, a reflection of self-existence by these women writers. In doing so, they broke free from the stereotyped thinking of ethnicity and mode of politics. In the last5years, literatureness and aesthetics values of the works have drawn the attention of some critics like Yangchun、Zhangqiong and Luwei.By focusing on these aspects of the literature works, they have neglected, to some extent, the ethnicity of the works. Chinese American literature is called so because of its ethnicity, however little importance is attached to it. The importance of the tag was exaggerated so that the literature could merge into the mainstream American literature, an effort which resulted in a lack of attention to the artistic values of the works by writers and critics.As Chinese American literature concerns ethnicity, individuality, politics as well as artistic values, we shouldn’t give too much attention to some of them while neglecting others. They should, instead, be treated as a whole, inseparable from each other.This thesis makes a study of a few works by women writers of Chinese descent published in the post1990’s which best represent their styles of writing, focusing on the styles and techniques of their narration, the symbolic images and uniqueness of their use of rhetoric devices. It intends to explore the trend of female Chinese American literature by giving equal share of attention to its ethnicity as well as the aesthetic values. A close study of these works shows that there is a conflict as well as a blend between the Chinese culture and American culture, ethnicity a and individuality, questions which had obsessed and puzzled previous writers.There are many stories about China in the works by the new generation of writers. They are, however, different from those we have seen before because in those stories, China is no longer a symbol of bitterness as compared with America as a symbol of sweetness. Rather, China has become a land where stories are staged, a land where writers give full play to their imagination. What’s more, the blend in terms of culture as well as race has resulted in the complexity of the identity of these women writers of Chinese descent, which indicates a new era in the development of the literature, a literature of double blending, a literature which is characterized by harmony in its development.