Contemporary Chinese American Literature Studies

Author: Zhao Wenshuang
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Publish Date: 2004-10-01
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This paper begins with the authenticity debate in the controversy over Asian American literature and analyzes the relationship between Asian American literature and traditional Chinese culture through the creative practices of representative figures such as David Henry Hwang and Maxine Hong Kingston in the controversy. Asian American writers' use of Chinese cultural resources in their works is not to preserve the authenticity of Chinese cultural traditions but to adapt or even distort ancestral cultural traditions based on Western value standards. The purpose is to construct an Asian American identity that is distinct from the mainstream society yet equal in coexistence within the multicultural society of the United States. Their cultural stance is more akin to ethnic particularism than nationalism.