Re-reading America: Changes and Challenges ISBN 1 873877 66 8
CONTENTS: Introduction Zhong Weihe & Han Rui 1 - Chapter One Re-reading American Fiction - Canon (Re)Formation - A Literary Revisionism Wang Ning 7 - Hemingway, the Androgynous Writer Dai Guiyu 17 - Gender-related Miscommunication in "Hills Like White Elephants" Ma Jianjun 25 - Reconstruction of History and Utopia of Art Liao Qiyi 30 - Quixotic Chivalry in Quentin Compson Liu Jianbo 38 - Multiplicity and Simplicity - The Meaning of The Scarlet Letter Ren Xiaojin 42 - Narrative Function of Structural Sequence Shao Jindi 55 - Social Gaze in the Lives of the Fragmented Characters of the Jazz Age Zhou Jingqiong 61 - The Narrator in Ethan Frome VS The Narrator in The Great Gatsby Yang Jing 67 - What Makes Rabbit Come Back? Jin Hengshan 73 - A Comparison between the Two Tragic Heroines - Miss Emily Grierson in William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" & Blanche Dubois in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire Zhang Xin 88 - Sacredness Profaned - A Study of Burlesque and Ridicule in Catch-22 Wang Yuanlu 95 - Chapter Two American Poetry - Gary Snyder's Sense of Nativeness Ou Hong 106 - The Representation of Chinese Women in the Canon of American Literature - The Icon of "The River-Merchant's Wife" Revisited Jennie Wang 117 - Stephen Crane's Poetry of the Absurd Huang Jiaxiu 131 - American Poetry Waiting for Breakthrough Xu Wenbo 136 - Postcards from the Edge - Imaging the Filipina Migrant in the Poems of Fatima Lim-Wilson and Luisa Aguilar-Igloria Ferdinand Lopez 139 - Chapter Three American Drama and Music - Interactive Frame, Inferences and Miscommunication in David Mamet's Oleanna Wang Hong 147 - M Butterfly - A Subversive Performance of Icon Xie Jingjing 158 - Lingering Folk Music Elements of the American South in Contemporary Film, Literature, and Society Eddie McGee 163 - The Times They are A-Changin' - What Future for the American Protest Song Ian Chaplin 173 - Chapter Four American Cinema - The MTV Generation and Hollywood's Post-Modern Adaptation of Romeo + Juliet He Qixin 185 - A License to Kill But Hollywood Never Dies - Re-reading Globalization, Americana and the Semiotic Empire Mao Sihui 193 - The 'Deadly Ballet' and That Legendary Bruce Lee Li Yufeng 206 - Constructions of Chinese Identity in Eat a Bowl of Tea and Chinese Box Chen Xiangyang 215 - Freedom in Resistance, Feminism and Thelma & Louise Zhuang Qing 227 - American Crime Films as 20th Century Morality Plays - The Influence of the Production Code Breen O'Reilly 237 - Xie Jin and Cecil B DeMille - The Importance of the Norm Timothy R White & Wang Pu 243 - Chapter Five Asian American Literature - The Foreigner at Home - Signifying the Difference of (Trans)-Nationalism in Recent Asian American Novels Toming Jun Liu 248 - Beyond the Celebration of Hybridity - On Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey Wu Na 263 - Resisting American Orientalism - Rereading Amy Tan as a Counter-discourse of American Mainstream Ideology Chen Leilei 270 - China as Represented in the Chinese American Novels Wei Jingyi 282 - Chapter Six China's Reception of American Literatu..... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------