Mimicry-a Strategy for the Self-Reconstruction of Maxine Hong Kingston in The Woman Warrior

DOI

10.2991/ichssr-19.2019.145How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Mimicry, Dilemma, Woman warrior, Self-reconstruction.

Abstract

As one of the most famous works in Asian American Literature, The Woman Warrior has been criticized from many aspects, like from the perspectives of feminism, deconstructionism, postmodernism… This paper tends to analyze it by applying the method of post-colonialism in order to interpret Kingston’s “distortion” of Traditional Chinese mythology. Through analysis, the author finds that the critique and defamation of Kingston is actually non-sense. On the contrary, mimicry dissolves the “great narrative” of west mainstream culture and destroys the integrity and consistency of western ideological and narrative strategy. It is rightly this mimicry of Chinese fable that enables Kingston and all the Chinese American to reconstruct themselves while being caught in the dilemma of Chinese and American culture.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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