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In Her Mother’s House: Mother-Daughter Dissonance in Post-1990s Chinese American Fiction
ZHANG Tong-tong
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2023.08.001
Guangdong Teachers College of Foreign Langauge and Arts, Guangzhou, China
This paper attempts to examine the trope of “home” and the depiction of mother-daughter dissonance “in her mother’s house” in post-1990s Chinese American fiction. The research selects four novels in the case study and focuses on how mother-daughter dissonance “in her mother’s house” is presented, what cultural connotations the trope of “home” carries and how they are affected by such extra-contextual factors as racism, sexism and classism. In comparison with two representative mother-daughter narrative works in pre-1990s period, the new characteristics and connotations of “home” in mother-daughter dissonance in post-1990s Chinese American fiction are revealed.
Chinese American fiction, mother-daughter dissonance, home, post-1990s
Journal of Literature and Art Studies, August 2023, Vol. 13, No. 8, 555-562
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