Cultural Hybridization in Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book

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Title:	Cultural Hybridization in Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book
Authors:	傅友祥
Contributors:	中國文化大學
Keywords:	湯婷婷文化混種族裔搗蛋鬼
Date:	2008-07-01
Issue Date:	2012-05-17 10:48:11 (UTC+8)
Abstract:	美國弱勢族裔文學中，尋求新身分認同的掙扎歷程不斷地浮現，形成此文類的重要母題。華美作家湯婷婷在《猴形者：他的偽書》小說中刻意突顯文化和語言再現的複雜過程，藉此挑戰並打破既有的狹隘族裔定義。湯氏以一種＜差異＞的書寫策略批判美國文化認同的現況，突顯美國文化內部差異的重要性，以重新構築所謂的美國經驗。本文探討《猴形者》的文化翻轉、翻譯過程以及族裔之間複雜的＜連字號＞現象，以反思國家與族裔間的等式關係，進而彰顯＜華－美＞一辭中的連字符號內淺藏的另一個閱讀空間。書中角色惠特曼‧阿辛創造了一個跨越僵化思維的搗蛋鬼空間，並由語言打破各種藩籬，扮演多重角色，不斷地顛覆＜族裔＞的單一同質性、賦予＜族裔＞新的混種定義。 The struggle to forge a new identity recurs as a central theme in American minority literature. Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book (1989) problematizes, subverts, and displaces restrictive ethnic definitions by emphasizing the complex processes of cultural and linguistic representation and interpretation. Kingston writes to reconstitute the American experience through the strategy of "difference," highlighting the importance of difference within American cultures by challenging the status quo of American identity. By investigating Kingston's emphasis on the hyphen of ethnicity and cultural transformation/translation in the novel, this essay explores the problematic valorization of the hybrid ethnic/national equation and offers an alternative cultural "space" between the hyphenated Chinese and Americans. Incessantly reformulated and reformulating itself through languages and breaking boundaries, Kingston's narrative offers an alternative trickster space. Such space resists the homogenizing and unifying conflation to define "ethnicity" through her protagonist taking on multiple roles and constantly enacting versions of ethnicity.
Relation:	華岡英語學報 14期 P.165-178
Appears in Collections:	[Department of English Language and Literature ] Hwa Kang English Journal

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