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Orientalism in Amy Tan’s The Kitchen God’s Wife

Author: LiuShuang
Tutor: DongHongChuan
School: Sichuan International Studies University
Course: English Language and Literature
Keywords: Amy Tan Kitchen God's Wife Orientalism Characterization
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Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2011
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Abstract

The Kitchen God's Wife \the relationship between the mother-daughter relationship become the external framework of the overall artistic conception. This is a very novel three-quarters of the length book on immigration to the United States, as a mother, Jiang Wenli, told her daughter own painful experience of half a century before that period, which interspersed with a large number of traditional Chinese cultural symbols. This novel creation modeled on the real experiences of the mother of Amy Tan has been able to win the high praise of readers and critics and the highest in the United States in the first of the best-selling book of the year, not only thanks to the fascinating story, thanks to her in the novel in juxtaposition description of Eastern and Western cultures, and make full use of the imagination to depict the mysterious Orient hope to meet Western readers read. Amy Tan is a Chinese-American writer, one of the most prestigious. Her work is not only popular, but has been much concern of literary critics at home and abroad. With multiple topics because of their novels, their works are also there are a variety of ways of interpretation, mainly concentrated in the mother-daughter relationship, feminist, narrative, identity. With global warming, in recent years, more and more comments from the perspective of Orientalism interpretation of the works of Amy Tan, but this type of article \The article attempts to use Edward Said's Orientalism theory, the use of text reading, and the course of development of the Chinese American Literature and the author's experiences growing up, analysis of the shaping of the characters in the \can not be avoided in the process of writing Orientalism complex. This paper consists of three parts, introduction, body and conclusion. The introductory section provides a brief introduction to Amy Tan's life and writing experience, the main plot of the novel, as well as reviews of novels, and has made a preliminary introduction to Said's theory of Orientalism, the central argument of this article. The paper consists of three main chapters: the first chapter of the Chinese men behind, degradation weird image analysis on the mainstream culture of the United States forced the fact that Asian men are marginalized; study of the second chapter is a patriarchal society \'dip Yin, the ethnocentrism of the common Western Western society is better than the East. The concluding section summarizes the research papers. As a Chinese writer Amy Tan is committed to writing about the theme of the Chinese culture, but her rendering of oriental exoticism could not from the perspective of the Americans, to cater to mainstream American values, essentially a rigid Orientalism.

Orientalism in Amy Tan’s The Kitchen God’s Wife

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