ABSTRACT
In recent decades Chinese American literature has received considerable attention from scholars. Considering the research background, this study focuses on the classic Chinese-American literary work The Joy Luck Club and the emerging work Everything I Never Told You, devoted to exploring the cultural mentality and identity of fictional characters in the literary works of Chinese-American female writers in English literature and exploring the evolution of the “self” identity of Chinese American English literature women writers in the context of the great era, namely from the early Chinese American women's wavering resistance to Chinese and female identity, to the third generation immigrants’ active acceptance of identity diversity. This study also infers the reasons for this change based on the background of the times and personal factors; the above phenomena are analyzed from both external and internal perspectives. The final conclusion is that the changing identities of the authors themselves and their characters in these two works are influenced by globalization trends as well as the authors’ personal experiences and attitudes.
