Cultural Identity Formation in David Henry Hwang’s Plays: From the Perspective of Phinney’s Model of Ethnic Identity
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This study aims to interpret David Henry Hwang’s FOB, Trying to Find Chinatown, and Yellow Face through the lens of Jean S. Phinney’s three-stage model for the construction of cultural identity. Hwang’s characters follow the identity development course as laid out in Phinney’s theory: the initial, moratorium, and achieved stages. The playwright’s personal and professional history demonstrates the intricacies of an identity crisis by establishing parallels between his own identity formation and those of his protagonists. Our interpretive framework focuses on the psychological and practical conditions of minority groups in the United States by examining the cultural anxieties and challenges experienced by Asian American characters in Hwang’s works. The ongoing development of Asian American culture within and beyond literary texts provides a compelling basis for the continued interpretive work of understanding the connections between literary, social, and psychological multiethnic identity.
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This study aims to interpret David Henry Hwang’s FOB, Trying to Find Chinatown, and Yellow Face through the lens of Jean S. Phinney’s three-stage model for the construction of cultural identity. Hwang’s characters follow the identity development course as laid out in Phinney’s theory: the initial, moratorium, and achieved stages. The playwright’s personal and professional history demonstrates the intricacies of an identity crisis by establishing parallels between his own identity formation and those of his protagonists. Our interpretive framework focuses on the psychological and practical conditions of minority groups in the United States by examining the cultural anxieties and challenges experienced by Asian American characters in Hwang’s works. The ongoing development of Asian American culture within and beyond literary texts provides a compelling basis for the continued interpretive work of understanding the connections between literary, social, and psychological multiethnic identity.
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