Immigrant Self-representation: Chinese American Immigrant Writers Ha Jin and Yiyun Li in the International Context
| dc.contributor.advisor | Wang, Edlie | en_US |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Chu, Patricia | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Liu, Shuang | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | English Language and Literature | en_US |
| dc.contributor.publisher | Digital Repository at the University of Maryland | en_US |
| dc.contributor.publisher | University of Maryland (College Park, Md.) | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-17T06:19:40Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-07-17T06:19:40Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | In this thesis, I talk about how first-generation Chinese immigrant writers contribute to Chinese American literature through their unique representations of immigrant life. Due to language barriers and other historical reasons, a majority of representations of immigrant life in Chinese American literature have been written by the descendants of immigrants, second-generation writers. Now, there are more Chinese immigrant writers who write immigrant stories in America. To some extent, immigrant writers’ representation of immigrant life is a “self-representation,” since they are writing their own stories. By comparing immigrant writers’ works to those from second-generation writers, I argue that Ha Jin and Yiyun Li are immigrant writers who have contributed to Chinese American literature in three aspects: genre, theme, and language. | en_US |
| dc.identifier | https://doi.org/10.13016/M2GB1XM02 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/21001 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.subject.pqcontrolled | Literature | en_US |
| dc.subject.pqcontrolled | Ethnic studies | en_US |
| dc.subject.pquncontrolled | Chinese American Literature | en_US |
| dc.subject.pquncontrolled | Immigrant writing | en_US |
| dc.title | Immigrant Self-representation: Chinese American Immigrant Writers Ha Jin and Yiyun Li in the International Context | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
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