New Territory: Remapping Chinese American Literature

In the past 100 years, Chinese American literature has undergone a history of ups and downs. Since the 1970s, Chinese American literature has begun to take on a new look of flourishing in the multi-cultural context of American literary arena. By discussing some representative Chinese American writers in different times, this paper attempts to reinvestigate Chinese American literature by mapping, for the first time, its different stages of development and examining its most important themes and concerns. By studying the struggle, tension, and conflict between different cultures and different ways of life, this paper also discusses the double Other positions of Chinese Americans in American society --- the ethnic Other and the female Other.