Tong Wing-Yin. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 125-129). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter Chapter One --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter Two --- The Cultural Imaginary in the Works of Maxine Hong Kingston --- p.10 / Chapter Chapter Three --- The Communicative Nature of the Cultural Imaginary --- p.41 / Chapter Chapter Four --- Language and Identity --- p.67 / Chapter Chapter Five --- Unique Identity as a Chinese- American --- p.89 / Chapter Chapter Six --- Conclusion --- p.120 / Works Cited --- p.125

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 40).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 40). Also available in print.

Diss. phil.-hist. Bern (kein Austausch). / andere Ausgabe: Concrete language. Literaturverz.

Zhou, Yi. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 153-168). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.2 / Table of Contents --- p.6 / Introduction --- p.8 / Chapter Chapter One: --- Return to the Parole --- p.22 / Chapter 1.1 --- The Language Dilemma and Appeal of Asian American Literature --- p.23 / "Language: Community, Nation and Power" --- p.24 / Claiming a Right to Standard English --- p.29 / Claiming a Right to Multiple Tongues --- p.32 / Problems with Previously Mentioned Ways of Resistance --- p.36 / Chapter 1.2 --- Kingston´ةs Language Choice and Writing Strategies --- p.40 / Poetic Language: From Kristeva to Kingston --- p.41 / Heterogeneity: Kingston as a Bilingual Writer --- p.44 / Diversity： A New Fusion Language --- p.51 / Dialogism: From Words to Culture --- p.58 / Chapter Chapter Two: --- Return to the Body --- p.73 / Chapter 2.1 --- From Parole to the Body --- p.76 / "Langue, Parole, Subject" --- p.77 / Deconstruction of the Subject: The Maternal Body --- p.79 / “Chora´ح-- A Bodily Metaphor for Resistance to Langue --- p.81 / Chapter 2.2 --- Body-Based Writing --- p.83 / Let the Body Speak --- p.84 / "Female Writers, Body Consciousness" --- p.87 / Kingston´ةs Bodily and Life Experience --- p.90 / Chapter 2.3 --- Gaze on the Body´ؤKingston's Body Writing on Male --- p.93 / Objectification: Seeing and Being Seen --- p.94 / Objectified Body-From Body to Flesh --- p.96 / Objectification as Alienation --- p.99 / Body´ةs Spontaneous Resistance: Pain --- p.103 / Chapter Chapter Three: --- Return to the Minor --- p.111 / Chapter 3.1 --- Speech Act: Another View on Resistance to Langue --- p.113 / Austin: Speech Is Itself a Form of Action --- p.113 / "Derrida: “Iterability""" --- p.116 / Judith Butler： A Politics of the Performative --- p.119 / Chapter 3.2 --- The Revolt of Minor Tongue: On Language Appropriation --- p.122 / "Performing a “Twin Skin""" --- p.123 / The Stereotypical Linguistic Reality --- p.127 / "Insurrectionary Speech Act: Towards a “Parasitic"" Language" --- p.130 / Chapter 3.3 --- One Man Play: On Minor Writing as Felicitous Political Speech-Acts? --- p.134 / A Performance of Identity Politics --- p.136 / Minor Writing: A Site for Felicitous Performance? --- p.138 / Conclusion --- p.145 / Bibliography --- p.153

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Indiana University of Pennsylvania. / Includes bibliographical references.

University of Macau / Faculty of Arts and Humanities. / Department of English

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Indiana University of Pennsylvania. / Includes bibliographical references.

The objective of this project was to come to a clear understanding of Irish-American culture--and how that culture expresses itself in individuals. The text considers the role of myth, religion, language, tradition, stereotypes and to a lesser degree gender in the molding of character. Although autobiographical in nature many of the themes are those that encompass the Irish-American experience as a whole. Questions asked throughout the process include, what makes one hyphenated? How is this culture passed from generation to generation? And is it multifaceted? Is there more than one way to express being Irish-American. The text is presented is a narrative which is also part of the tradition it presents and makes the assertion that Irish-Americans have a unique culture within the larger American whole. It asserts, like Maxine Hong-Kingston and Richard Rodriguez that the tradition from whence we come shapes who we are.

This thesis argues for significant correlations in the politics of representation of Chinatown and mother-daughter relationships in two literary texts by Maxine Hong Kingston and Fae Myenne Ng. The two novels do not follow traditional representations of Chinatown and provide critical representations of Chinatown and mother-daughter relationships. First, Kingston's The Woman Warrior reveals how the heroine demystifies a powerful image of her mother and a mystic image of Chinatown in a process of establishing her autonomy. Second, Ng's Bone describes how the heroine tries to free her mother from a dismal image of Chinatown to live her own life outside Chinatown. The analyses of representation of Chinatown and mother-daughter relationships rely on close readings of the textual motifs through a psychoanalytic framework and cultural theories. / Graduation date: 2012