Racial and Gender Power Struggle of M. Butterfly

• Main Authors: Chia-Nien Ho, 賀家年
• Other Authors: Hannes Bergthaller
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/cgi-bin/gs32/gsweb.cgi/login?o=dnclcdr&s=id=%22107NCHU5094004%22.&searchmode=basic

碩士 === 國立中興大學 === 外國語文學系所 === 107 === After 1960’s Civil Right Movements, there shows up an abundance of Asian American writers and Asian-based literature in English. Those writers and works are such as Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club, Frank Chin’s Donald Duk, Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior, and David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly. All of them speak for marginal Asian voice in white Anglocentric literature, and appeal to the public for the retrieving of Asian racial pride and national self-esteem. David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly explores racial and gender issue from multiple aspects. Especially the racial hierarchy and gender power struggle between the West and the East. Hwang uses French Gallimard and Chinese Song to illustrate the various façade of a person’s cultural identity and gender identity. This thesis would employ theories from Bakhtin, Said, Althusser, and Hall to discuss power struggle between race and gender. I would further prove that the power hierarchy between the West and the East is subverted; the post-modern culture is from Anglocentric univocal to multiple cultural aspect.