The Politics of Mother-Daughter Relationships, Gender, and Race: A Study of American Chinese Women's Literature

Author: Shi Pingping
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Publish Date: 2004-12-01
Features: This is an academic monograph adapted from a doctoral dissertation, presented entirely in English. The study is based on meticulous textual analysis, using representative feminist theories on mother-daughter relationships and motherhood as a reference framework to compare and analyze the similarities and differences between mainstream white-centered feminist discourse and the perspectives of American Chinese women and their sisters of color. This approach aims to affirm the unique perspective of Chinese women's literature in portraying the theme of mother-daughter relationships. While employing feminist methodologies, the book also utilizes cutting-edge postcolonial theory to emphasize the close interconnections among categories such as gender, race, and class, hoping to reveal the ways and means through which American Chinese matriarchal literature voices its existence. The book spans both the field of American ethnic minority literature studies and women's literature studies, combining the characteristics of literary research and cultural research.