An Interpretation Of Immigrants’ Growth Theme In The Valley Of Amazement From The Perspective Of Liminal Theory

Inspired by her unique multi-cultural identity and tortuous growth experience,Amy Tan,a Chinese American writer,examines,understands and writes stories from the dual perspectives of eastern and Western cultures.Her works often draw readers’ attention to the narrative of mother and daughter and the growth and identity of immigrant women.In her works,she often conveys the idea that the world is vast and broad It has created multiple cultures.These cultures exchange and repel each other,and finally blend,providing new vitality and vitality for cultural development.In The Valley of Amazement,Amy Tan subverts and rewrites the Chinese prostitute culture and customs with the writing method of self memory and narration of immigrant individual.She concretely displays the identity problems and social class problems of immigrant women in the process of growing up,and shows the plight and hope of immigrant women’s survival in the alien environment to the readers.This paper takes the novel The Valley of Amazement as the research object,from the three stages of separation,liminal and blending,expounds the growth process of the novel character Violet And analysis,to explore the text of immigrant women in the face of identity problems in the growth process of writing,and analysis of Amy Tan in the text construction of immigrant women after the pursuit of social identity independence and the construction of their own cultural identity.In this paper,the time axis and event axis of the protagonist’s growth process are taken as the order,and the changing process of identity confusion is put under Turner’s ritual process theory,and the text is carefully read and analyzed.From the details,this paper makes a systematic investigation and analysis of many variables that affect the changes of immigrant women’s identity and identity confusion,and sums up several variable structures that affect the construction of cultural identity,namely,taking gender and race as the core,supplemented by factors such as class,language,age,name,appearance,etc.In the light of the liminal theory and variable structure,the paper analyzes the mutual influence of the growth puzzle and identity puzzle of the novel character Violet through the elaboration of the change process of the opposite relationship between women and society in The Valley of Amazement,and proves that the female immigrants will inevitably experience many complex social tests and the real growth and transformation can only be realized through rituals in the growth process,Construct independent social identity and complete cultural identity.At the same time,through the close reading of the text,the paper explores the change process of individual cultural differences from concealment to manifestation to integration,and shows readers the hope and vitality brought by the coexistence and prosperity of multi cultures in a diversified environment.This study complements the existing research on the growth theme and identity of immigrants,which is helpful to promote the research in this direction to a deeper level.At the same time,this interdisciplinary research from human society to the field of literature is beneficial to broaden the research field of vision,and also has certain reference value for the study of other female immigrant novels.In addition,the study of female immigrant literature from the perspective of threshold theory and the background of globalization can help us to understand the problems of female immigrants and the inevitable challenges and vitality in the process of cultural diversity construction more clearly.At the same time,it can enlighten readers to reflect on themselves,learn to respect cultural differences and make use of the innovation opportunities brought by cultural differences,and improve the awareness of crosscultural communication.It has some enlightening significance.