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1、An Analysis of Kinstons Concept of Harmony in The Woman WarriorChen Jing Under the Supervision ofYuan BinSchool of Foreign Languages and CulturesPanzhihua UniversityMay 2009论汤亭亭女勇士中的和谐观 ContentsAbstract.IKey Words.I摘要.关键词.Introduction.1I. Sexual Harmonyfrom Opposition to Balanced Position.3A. Female
2、 and Male to Be One Unityfrom the No-name Woman to Fa Mu Lan.3 1. The Tragedy of the No-name Woman .32. The Balanced Identity of Fa Mu Lan.5B. Brave Orchid Characterized by Two Sexes Values.6II. Racial Harmonyfrom Discrimination to Acknowledgement. 9A. The Difficulties of Chinese Americans in USA.9B
3、. Altering Chinese Stories to Change the Stereotypes and Prejudice.10C. The Gaining of Language Power of Chinese Americans.111. The Loss of Language Power. .11 2. The Regaining of Language Power.12III. Cultural Harmonyfrom Conflict to Fusion.14A. Mother-daughter Relationship from Conflict to Underst
4、anding .14B. Brave Orchids Exclusion of American Culture to Accepting American Culture and Kingstons Fear of Chinese Culture to Accepting Chinese Culture.15C. Kingstons Growth from Paradox and Confusion to Awareness and Fusion.17Conclusion.19Acknowledgements.20Bibliography.21AbstractThe Woman Warrio
5、r, written by Maxine Hong Kingston, a famous Chinese American female writer, has heavily hit the Chinese American literature and American literature since published in 1976, and catches the eyes of cultural and literature studies. Due to her bicultural identity, Kingston has a more profound perspect
6、ive to the relationship of her existence, Chinese culture and American culture, and how to keep the two identities in harmony is always the focus of her writing in the process of her growth. Starting from the angle of Chinese American woman pursuing self-identity, this paper aims to reveal Kingstons
7、 concept of harmony conveyed in the process of seeking sexual, racial and cultural identities in The Woman Warrior. Key WordsBalance; self-identity; The Woman Warrior; harmony摘 要美籍华裔女作家汤亭亭的作品女勇士自1976年出版后便轰动了整个亚裔美国文学和美国主流文学界，并成为文化和文学研究的焦点。由于自身的双重文化身份，汤亭亭对自我存在，中国文化和美文化的关系都有着更为深刻的洞察力。在成长历程中，如何保持自我身份的和谐
8、也一直是汤亭亭写作的焦点。 因此，本文将以华裔女性追求自我身份认同为视角，从性别，种族和文化身份三方面来揭示出她在寻求认同过程中所传达出的和谐思想。关键词平衡；自我身份；女勇士；和谐；IntroductionMaxine Hong Kingston, a significant and celebrated Chinese American female writer, is best known for The Woman Warrior: Memories of Girlhood among Ghosts (1976) and its companion book China Men (1
9、980). The Woman Warrior won the National Book Critics Circle Awarded in 1976 for non-fiction. Kingstons special blend of fantasy, talk-story, autobiography, Chinese folklore and memories makes her works popular and unconventional. As one of the first generation of Chinese Americans, she grows up wit
10、h confusion and exclusion of less-favorable treatment of her ancestors, suffering the racism in America and denigration of being a girl. Maxine Ting Ting Hong was born in Oct. 27, 1940 in Stockton, California which had been a major supply center in the gold rush of mid-nineteenth century. Her mother
11、 immigrated to America in 1939 to join her husband. Kingston attended the University of California at Berkeley, from which she graduated in 1962. In the same year, she married Earll Kingston, an actor. And then, she taught English and mathematics in Hayward, California. Since The Woman Warrior gaine
12、d immediately great success when published in 1976, she decided to devote all her energy to writing. The Woman Warrior as her masterpiece is an autobiography memorizing her growing history. The study of The Woman Warrior is diversified, ranging from English literature, autobiography, feminism, socio
13、logy to folklore, history and ethnic problems. The Woman Warrior is composed of five chapters, The No Name Woman, White Tiger, Shaman, At Western Palace and A Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe, in which each part is independent to another and connected by Kingstons growing experience and her mothers ta
14、lk-story. Therefore, the complete development of her self-consciousness is lined by the five parts. And Kingston presents such writing of her autobiography itself as her success, her act of making peace with her family and the around society, and seeking who she is and where she fits in the world around her. For Kingstons par
