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The Postmodernist Tendency in Maxine Hong Kingston’s Works

Author: LiHaiXia
Tutor: ChenHuiLiang
School: North China Electric Power University (Beijing)
Course: English Language and Literature
Keywords: postmodernism Kingston writing technique
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Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2008
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Abstract


Maxine Hong Kingston, who has gained great concerns from Chinese American Literature, is adept a various and special writing techniques. This thesis is intended to explore the postmodernism characteristics embodied in her major works, The Woman Warrior, China Men and Tripmaster Monkey by means of writing techniques of postmodernism. Intertextuality is used to analyze Kingston’s works contemporarily and historically. Through the application of deconstruction, the thesis breaks the silence of women in the control of patriarchy and Chinese male in American dominant society, and reconstructs their proper voice right by means of Chinese ancestor’s stories and classics. Also the thesis presents more postmodernism techniques, such as parody, language games, the mystic all-known narrator and collage which Kingston adopts to create Ah Sing, an image with postmodernism rebellious spirit. In conclusion, the writing techniques of postmodernism widen the point of view of studying the ethnic writers, which makes the readers explore the humanism embodied in Kingston’s works through the postmodernism perspective.

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