Ethnic And Hybrid Identity: A Study Of Amy Tan’s The Bonesetter’s Daughter And Gish Jen’s Mona In The Promised Land

Abstract

Asian American literature is turning to receive attention from critics. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, immigrants from different countries are starts writing their own experiences in the host country. The writings of immigrants from China and their descendants in America reflect their Chinese American experiences in their works. Chinese immigrants in America are started writing their experiences in the 1850s and it continues to the present. In the early period, it is not that popular in the host country, it was mostly their autobiographies. Afterward, in the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century ‘Cultivated Chinese’ and students are migrating to America their writings are lifting the Chinese American literature to the highest position in the United States. They are Sui Sin Far, Jade Snow Wong, and Frank Chin. In addition to Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan and Gish Jen are the unavoidable women writers of Chinese American literature. These two writers have received attention from literary critics with their debut novels.