沉默中的声音——《女勇士》沉默主题分析-voice in silence —— an analysis of the silence theme in woman warrior.docx

独创性声明 本人声明所呈交的论文是我个人在导师指导下进行的研究工作 及取得的研究成果。尽我所知，除了文中特别加以标注和致谢的地方 外，论文中不包括其它人已经发表或撰写过的研究成果，也不包含为 获得西北师范大学或其它教育机构的学位或证书而使用过的材料。与 我 一 同工作的同志对本研究所做的任何贡献均已在论文中作了明确 的说明并表示了谢意。 签名 : 千AZi↑ 附J : 阳、μ 关于论文使用授权的说明 本人完全了解西北师范大学有关保留 、使用学位论文的规定，即 : 学校有权保留送交论文的复印件，允许论文被查阅和借阅;学校 可以 公布论文的全部或部分内容，可以采用影印、缩印或其它复制手段保 存论文。 (保密的论文在解密后应遵守此规定) 签名 : 才在队 导师签名: 趴在 1kR期: /1. / .J_.. t Abstract The Woman Warrior won immediate success upon its publication in 1976. Maxine Hong Kingston, the author of this nonfiction, took Chinese customs, legends, fabled literary quotation as basic writing materials, melting her own rich imagination with the real background of twenty century‘s American society, and thereupon, she created an outstanding work with special writing techniques and unusual content. It became an instant bestseller and secured a place in the top ten non-fiction books of the decade. This book brings great reputation to the author, and meanwhile establishes her status as a Chinese-American writer with a deep and long influence on American literature. In the field of literary criticism, studies on the theme of silence in literary works are becoming an increasing focus of attention. Actually, silence pervaded in Kingston‘s The Woman Warrior aims at protesting the authority, and Kingston attempts to express her resistance by virtue of different kinds of silence. The following questions naturally arise concerning silence: will silence be effective or not? How do those protagonists fulfill their assertion in silence? What is the final consequence? On the basis, this thesis will apply Michel Foucault‘s theory of power and power discourse to explore the theme of silence in The Woman Warrior. This thesis is divided into five chapters. The first chapter gives a brief introduction to Chinese America literature, The Woman Warrior and its author Maxine Hong Kingston, a brief summary of the plot, a review of other critics‘ studies on this book, and at last the statement of this thesis is put forward. Th