《血统文化身份与美国化(美国华裔小说主题研究)》(作者丁夏林)对所选定的12部华裔美国英文小说(包括传记)中的族裔经验与文化认同进行系统考察，旨在揭示其对作品人物的美国化过程的促进或抑制作用，探讨文学人物乃至作家本人的“美国化”运行轨迹，适合从事相关研究工作的人员参考阅读。

《血统文化身份与美国化(美国华裔小说主题研究)》(作者丁夏林)共分三章，另有一个绪论和结语，借用索罗斯曾经提出的“血统世系”与“文化认同”这两个概念，对所选定的12部华裔美国英文小说(包括传记)中的族裔经验与文化认同进行系统考察，《血统文化身份与美国化(美国华裔小说主题研究)》旨在揭示其对作品人物的美国化过程的促进或抑制作用，探讨文学人物乃至作家本人的“美国化”运行轨迹。

Acknowledgments

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter One The Cultural Politics of the Generation Gap

Good Medicine Tastes Bitter: Cultural Identity (Re)formation in

Louis Chu's Eat a Bowl of Tea

Like Father, Like Son?: Intergenerational Conflict in Pardee

Lowe's Father and Glorious Descendant

The beginning is hers, the ending, mine: Mother-Daughter Talking

Stories in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior

Your mother is in your blood: The Mother-Daughter Bond in Amy

Tan's The Joy Luck Club

Chapter Two The Politics and Art of Claiming America

The Making of an American: A New Historicist Interpretation of

Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men

From Cultural Nationalism to Americanism: Frank Chin's Donald

Duk in Perspective

Rebel with a Cause: Jade Snow Wong's American Dream in her Fifth

Chinese Daughter

Shawn Wong's Quest for a Lonely Heritage in his Homebase

Chapter Three Americanization and its Discontents

America was no America: Cultural Disillusionment in Gish Jen's

Typical American

Paper is more precious than blood': Alienation and Abjection in Fae

Myenne Ng's Bone

Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child?: Americanization as Violence in

Gus Lee's China Boy

Nature versus Nurture: An Anatomy of Americanization in Eric Liu's

The Accidental Asian

Conclusion

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