Peripheralization of Females in Frank Chin’s The Year of the Dragon

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Frank Chin’s effort for constructing a new identity for Asian Americans, which for him was hyper-masculinity, has aroused huge polemics within Asian American scholarly discourse regarding gender, often being criticized for reinforcing and enlarging the already existing gender hegemony. This paper hopes to bring to light Chin’s play The Year of the Dragon by analyzing the playwright’s biased ideology in terms of gender, as much of the previous scholarly analysis on this play was mostly focused on model minority myth or the dispute between authenticity and fakeness of ethnicity. It explores how Chin’s endeavor to establish a masculine Chinese American identity through this play was made with the sacrifice of female characters.

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