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A Study of Mother-Daughter Relations in The Woman Warrior, The Joy Luck Club and Bone from the Perspective of Homi K. Bhabha’s Theory A Thesis Submitted to the School of Foreign Languages Shenyang Normal University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts By Tian Zhiemei Under the Supervision of Professor Wang Jianhui May 2013 ABSTRACT Since the publication of the literary works of the Chinese immigration began in 1950s, Chinese American literature becomes a significant part of American literature. This thesis selects Kingston‘s The Woman Warrior, Amy Tan‘s The Joy Luck Club and Fae Myenne Ng‘s Bone as the literary texts for my study. These three works not only have a far-reaching influence in the realm of Chinese American, but have a wide recognition and praise in American mainstream. Besides, all of these works have obtained important awards during the past years. However, as the major theme in the three works, mother-daughter relationship is traditionally considered as a conflict-relation since mothers and daughters separately represents traditional Chinese culture and dominated American culture. And most of the researchers mainly follow the clue of mother-daughter ‘s conflict to the final reconciliation. This thesis focuses on two problems about the mother-daughter relations. On one hand, the thesis attempts to deconstruct the binary opposition of mother and daughter and their final cultural reconciliation. It is the differe