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- Title
Through the Looking Glass: Female Identity Rediscovery in Chen Ran's and Amy Tan's Fictions.
- Authors
Jing HE
- Abstract
This paper compares the metaphorical images in the fictions written by contemporary avant-garde Chinese writer Chen Ran and Chinese American writer Amy Tan. Through a close-reading of the protagonist' dreams and the attitudes towards the mirror from the perspectives of psychoanalysis and postmodern feminist theories, the paper attempts to prove that the dream scenes and the imagery of the mirror function as an essential tool for women to reconstruct their identities of multiplicity and fluidity in defiance of male arbitration.
- Subjects
WOMEN'S roles in literature; EXPERIMENTAL fiction; PRIVATE Life, A (Book); JOY Luck Club, The (Book : Tan); FEMININE identity; TAN, Amy, 1952-; CHEN Ran; CHINESE women authors
- Publication
Intercultural Communication Studies, 2016, Vol 25, Issue 3, p306
- ISSN
1057-7769
- Publication type
Literary Criticism