Chinese_American_literature_英美文化_PPT.ppt

1、Chinese American literature,By changkaken,The theme and topic of Chinise American Culture,Chinese American literature deals with many topics and themes. A common topic is the challenges Another common theme is that of interaction between generations. Questions of identity and gender are often dealt

2、with as well,Chinese American Literature in the 19th century,19th century Chinese American literature has only recently come to be studied, as much of it was written in Chinese. 19th century Chinese American writers were primarily workers and students. Some famous writers of this period,Chinese Amer

3、ican Literature in the 20th century,Chinese American literature written of the 20th century is written almost exclusively in English. Chinese American authors became more prolific and accepted after the lifting of the Chinese Exclusion Act. The 1970s saw further progress.,Chinese American Literature

4、 in the 20th century,In the 1980s David Henry Hwang Amy Tan The 1990s saw further growth,Recent History,How can you say luck and chance are the same thing. Chance is the first step you take, and luck is what comes afterwards Amy Tan The Kitchen Gods Wife,Amy Tan,A middle child and only daughter born

5、 on in Oakland, California to Chinese immigrants John Tan and Daisy February 19, 1952. Moved to Switzerland, where Amy finished high school. During this period, Amy learned about her mothers former marriage to an abusive man in China, and of their four children, including three daughters and a son w

6、ho died as a toddler. In 1987 Amy traveled with Daisy to China. There, Amy finally met her three half-sisters. Tan received her bachelors and masters degrees in English and linguistics from San Jos State University, and later did doctoral linguistics studies at UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley. Resides

7、 in Sausalito, California with her husband, Louis DeMattei, a lawyer whom she met on a blind date and married in 1974.,Major Works of Amy Tan,The Joy Luck Club The Kitchen Gods Wife The Hundred Secret Senses The Bonesetters Daughter Saving Fish From Drowning The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings (

8、Non-fiction) The Moon Lady (1992) Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat (1994),The Joy Luck Club,The Joy Luck Club (1989) is a best-selling novel written by Amy Tan. It focuses on four Chinese American immigrant families in San Francisco, California who start a club known as the Joy Luck Club, playing the

9、Chinese game of mahjong for money while feasting on a variety of foods. The book is structured somewhat like a mahjong game, with four parts divided into four sections to create sixteen chapters. The three mothers and four daughters (one mother, Suyuan Woo, dies before the novel opens) share stories

10、 about their lives in the form of vignettes. Each part is preceded by a parable relating to the game. In 1993, the novel was adapted into a feature film directed by Wayne Wang and starring Ming-Na, Lauren Tom, Tamlyn Tomita, France Nuyen, Rosalind Chao, Kieu Chinh, Tsai Chin, Lisa Lu, and Vivian Wu.

11、 The screenplay was written by the author Amy Tan along with Ronald Bass. The novel was also adapted into a play, by Susan Kim, which premiered at Pan Asian Repertory Theatre in New York.,The Kitchen Gods Wife,A triumph A solid indication Aagain a story that a Chinese mother tells her daughter Surpa

12、sses its predecessor as a fully integrated and developed narrative, immensely readable, perceptive, humorous, poignant and wise.,The Hundred Secret Senses,The Hundred Secret Senses focuses on the relationship between Chinese-born Kwan and her younger, Chinese American sister Olivia, who serves as th

13、e books primary narrator. The melding of Olivias modern Western world and Kwans yin world come to show the desire and ambivalence of connecting and creating an Asian American identity for Olivia and Kwan, individually and together. The tension builds when together Kwan schemes to get Olivia and her

14、estranged husband, Simon, back together by traveling to China. Kwan serves as the translator for the two writers on their assignment to discover Olivia and Kwans connection to the Yin world. Kwan makes Olivia come to see that there are things in this world that we can understand through our five sen

15、ses but that sometimes the hundred secret senses are where we understand the rest. This story is about the journey of identity, family history, past lives, and ultimately, love.,The Bonesetters Daughter,The Bonesetters Daughter, published in 2001, is Amy Tans fourth novel. Like much of Tans work, th

16、is novel deals with the relationship between an American-born Chinese woman and her immigrant mother. The book explores the difficult relationship between Ruth, a Chinese-American woman, and LuLing, her Chinese mother. Tan brilliantly combines the small details of everyday life with the larger issue

17、s of displacement, culture and language and the importance of shared family histories. Compelling.exotic lands and the past lend themselves to poetry.,Saving Fish From Drowning,Awarded an honorable mention from the Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature, it is Tans sixth and most recent work.

18、The story follows the trials and tribulations twelve American tourists face when they embark on an expedition to explore China and Burma. The book opens with an article from the San Francisco Chronicle, stating that 11 tourists, including four men, five women, and two children have mysteriously vani

19、shed in Burma, after sailing away on a cruise on Christmas morning. From then on, the story is told through the omniscient first person narrative of Bibi Chen, the tour leader who unexpectedly dies before the trip takes place and who continues to watch over her friends as they journey towards their

20、fate.,The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings,This robust book, her first nonfiction effort, explains much about where those stories came from and how they influenced her. Amy Tan has touched millions of readers with haunting and sympathetic novels of cultural complexity and profound empathy. With t

21、he same spirit and humor that characterize her acclaimed novels, she now shares her insight into her own life and how she escaped the curses of her past to make a future of her own. She takes us on a journey from her childhood of tragedy and comedy to the present day and her arrival as one of the wo

22、rlds best-loved novelists. Whether recalling arguments with her mother in suburban California or introducing us to the ghosts that inhabit her computer,The Moon Lady,Of all the childrens books I have read, I place this one in the top ten for the 4-8 age category. The story is filled with references

23、to family bonding and what is and is not proper behavior. The story also shows what family life was like for a somewhat well-to-do Chinese family in China at the beginning of the 20th century. These references are made all the more realistic by a wonderful series of drawings by Gretchen Schields wit

24、h bright colors, beautiful detail, and authentic depictions of the China of years ago. Its almost like living a beautiful dream. To help other parents apply this advice, as a parent of four I consulted an expert, our youngest child, and asked her to share with me her favorite books that were read to

25、 her as a young child. The Moon Lady was one of her picks.,Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat,Plot: Sagwa resides in the palace of a magistrate in China (possibly during the Qing, as shown by the characters clothes), part of a royal family of cats who have the ability to write with their tail. She and h

26、er siblings, along with various other cats and Fu-Fu the bat partake in adventures that are usually accompanied by moral lessons, as is typical with most childrens shows. However, one aspect that sets this show apart is its display of various aspects of Chinese culture, which helps promote awareness

27、 and understanding of other ethnicities.,Maxine Hong Kingston(湯婷婷),October 27, 1940 Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley Three novels and several works of non-fiction Feminist movement (her memoir The Woman Warrior ) Received several awards for her contributions to Chinese Am

28、erican Literature including the National Book Award in 1981 for her novel China Men.,Major works of Maxine Hong Kingston,No Name Woman (essay), 1975 The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts, 1976 China Men, Knopf, 1980 Hawaii One Summer, 1987 Through the Black Curtain, 1987 Tripmaster M

29、onkey: His Fake Book, 1989 To Be the Poet, 2002 The Fifth Book of Peace, 2003 Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace, 2006 I Love a Broad Margin to My Life, 2011,No Name Woman,Kingstons mother narrates a story about Kingstons dead aunt and how the villagers in China attacked the familys house. Kingston

30、begins to add life to her mothers story and explore who her aunt was and what her motivations were. Kingston goes on to apply these ideas to her childhood as a Chinese American. It touches on themes such as Secrecy and Feminism.,The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts,The Woman Warrior

31、: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is a memoir by Maxine Hong Kingston, published by Vintage Books in 1975. Although there are many scholarly debates surrounding the official genre classification of the book, it can best be described as a work of creative non-fiction. Throughout the five chapters

32、of The Woman Warrior, Kingston blends autobiography with old Chinese folktales. What results is a complex portrayal of the 20th Century experiences of Chinese-Americans living in the U.S in the shadow of the Chinese Revolution. The Woman Warrior has been reported by the Modern Language Association a

33、s the most commonly taught text in modern university education. It has been used in disciplines as far reaching as American literature, anthropology, Asian studies, composition, education, psychology, sociology, and womens studies. In addition, it has also won the National Book Critics Circle Award

34、and has been named one of Time Magazines top nonfiction books of the 1970s.,China Men, Knopf,It won a 1981 National Book Award for General Nonfiction. It is a follow-up to The Woman Warrior, but with a focus on the history of the men in Kingstons family. In fact, Kingston wrote the books as one and would like them to be read together; she decided to publish them separately in fear that some of the mens stories might weaken the feminist perspective of the womens stories. The collection becomes what A. Robert Lee calls a narrative genea