The Identity of Immigrants in Celest Ng’s Everything I Never Told You开题报告

 2022-08-13 14:31:41

1. 研究目的与意义

Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You is a tragic novel which tells a Chinese American family’s struggle in dual cultural identity. The story begins with Lydia’s death, and then the whole family thrust into a desperate struggle between mother and her children, husband and wife, sisters and brother. The literary characters in this novel all confuse their cultural identity and they struggle their identity in their mix-race family. Thus, it is of great significance to research the identity of offspring of immigrants.

On the one hand, because of Chinese Exclusion Act, the development of Chinese American literature began during World War II. The study of Chinese American literature started relatively late. Sui Sin Far’ s works are among the earliest research subjects. The previous studies mainly focus more on early writers’ their works and there are few researches on recent Chinese American Literature such as Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior, Amy Tan’s The Valley of Amazement and Gish Jen’s Typical American and so on. Therefore, this thesis aims to focus on Everything I Never Told You----a top seller in 2015 which provides a new perspective to learn about Chinese American literature.

On the other hand, the dilemma in different cultures usually makes immigrants become the marginal men, which is a common phenomenon in many immigrants societies. The dual identity of immigrants can be directly seen from the dilemma. Everything I Never Told You provides a vivid picture of Chinese American family struggling with such dilemma and conflicts between Western and Chinese culture. Therefore, Everything I Never Told You is a suitable literary work to research the identity of immigrants.

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2. 研究内容和预期目标

2.1 Research content

Everything I Never Told You is the work of Celeste Ng. Celeste Ng is a Chinese American writer who attended Harvard University and has released many short stories that have been published in a variety of literary journals. This research explores identity of immigrants in Everything I Never Told You. It analyses why all characters in this novel struggle with identity crisis and explores their roots in the conflicts of individuals’ inner desire for a new identity to against the social conventions and norms. The ethnic identity, gender identity, sexual identity of the main characters are discussed.

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3. 国内外研究现状

Published in 2014, Everything I Never Told You tells a story about James’s family’s struggle between their dual identity. This novel was selected as the best seller by New Times and the NO.1 best book in the literary world debut. It has been translated worldwide and caught the public’s attention on the identity of the descendant of Chinese American immigrants.

3.1 Overseas Research

As is recommended by The Los Angeles Times, it is an “excellent, heart” books. Besides, there many other commentators who think highly of this novel such as “There isn’t a false note in this book, and my only concern in describing my profound admiration for Everything I Never Told is that it might raise unachievable in the reader...” (Flood, 2014) by Amazon senior books editor Chris Schluep, “She moves seamlessly into the weeks in her sensitive and detailed portraits of grief - the fatigue and disorientation, shock and anger...” by Clca Simon and so on.

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4. 计划与进度安排

1. Introduction

1.1 Celeste Ng and Everything I Never Told You

1.2 Literature Review

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5. 参考文献

Ding, Shihua. (2020). The Identity Reconstruction of James in Everything I Never Told You. International Journal of Literature and Arts, 8, 1-5.

Horowitz, J.L. amp; Newcomb, M.D. (2001). A Multidimensional Approach to Homosexual Identity. Journal of Homosexuality, 2, 1-19.

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