Construction of Self-identity: Analysis on The Bonesetter’s Daughter from Perspective of Feminism
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DOI: 10.25236/etmhs.2019.047
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Pan Chun
Abstract
Feminist Literary Criticism is one of the main literary and cultural criticism in the 20th Century Western literary theories. It is concerned about the creation of the female writers who are excluded by the male dominated literary norms and examines the relationship between literature and society and history, such as sex, family, patriarchal, law, and so on(Literary Theory: A Practical Introduction: P128). The Chinese American writer Amy Tan's fourth novel The Bonesetter's Daughter centers on the conflicts and reconciliation among the grandmother, mother and the daughter, and completes the construction of self-identity through the awakening of female consciousness, breaking the silence suppressed by the patriarchal society as well as the pursuit of identity (family name).
Keywords
Female consciousness, discourse power, pursuit of identity, The Bonesetter’s Daughter