Descent, consent and Americanization:a thematic study of Chinese American fiction

Acknowledgments
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
ChapterOneTheCulturalPoliticsoftheGenerationGap
GoodMedicineTastesBitter:CulturalIdentity(Re)formationin
LouisChu'sEataBowlofTea
LikeFather,LikeSon?:IntergenerationalConflictinPardee
Lowe'sFatherandGloriousDescendant
Thebeginningishers,theending,mine:Mother-DaughterTalking
StoriesinMaxineHongKingston'sTheWomanWarrior
Yourmotherisinyourblood:TheMother-DaughterBondinAmy
Tan'sTheJoyLuckClub
ChapterTwoThePoliticsandArtofClaimingAmerica
TheMakingofanAmerican:ANewHistoricistInterpretationof
MaxineHongKingston'sChinaMen
FromCulturalNationalismtoAmericanism:FrankChin'sDonald
DukinPerspective
RebelwithaCause:JadeSnowWong'sAmericanDreaminherFifth
ChineseDaughter
ShawnWong'sQuestforaLonelyHeritageinhisHomebase
ChapterThreeAmericanizationanditsDiscontents
AmericawasnoAmerica:CulturalDisillusionmentinGishJen's
TypicalAmerican
Paperismorepreciousthanblood':AlienationandAbjectioninFae
MyenneNg'sBone
SparetheRod,SpoiltheChild?:AmericanizationasViolencein
GusLee'sChinaBoy
NatureversusNurture:AnAnatomyofAmericanizationinEricLiu's
TheAccidentalAsian
Conclusion
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