ABSTRACT An American novelist of Chinese origin, Amy Tan attempts to reconstitute the American experience for both the first and second generation Chinese immigrants in her fictional discourses. Curiously, she defiantly promotes the idea of a re-created identity through assimilation, even while she is aware of the inability of Asian Americans to discard their ethnicity and disappear into the American culture. Significantly, Tan’s fictional Asian American characters not only justify their ethnic affiliation but also assert the importance of variance within the American culture by challenging the status-quo of American identity. However, this assertion of the Asian American subjectivity within the multicultural context of America further reinforces the insurmountable cultural differences between the scientific Western ‘self’ and the exotic Eastern ‘other,’ leading to the production of hybrid or alchemised characters, rather than monolithic Americans. Focusing on her use of exotic and supernatural tropes in The Hundred Secret Senses, this paper probes how Tan astutely perpetuates occidental and oriental stereotyping in her fictions and thereby indulges in New Age Ethnicity or neo-Orientalism, as a part of her aspiration to belong to the white American intellectual circle.

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艾米·谭（Amy Tan）的《一百种秘密的感觉》中的新东方主义刻板印象

摘要艾米·谭（Amy Tan）是一位华裔美国小说家，他在虚构的作品中试图重新诠释第一代和第二代华裔移民在美国的经历。奇怪的是，即使她意识到亚裔美国人无法抛弃自己的种族并消失在美国文化中，她还是通过同化挑衅地提出了重新创建身份的想法。值得注意的是，谭（Tan）的虚构的亚裔美国人角色不仅证明了他们的种族归属是合理的，而且还通过挑战美国身份的现状来断言在美国文化中差异化的重要性。然而，在美国多元文化背景下对亚裔美国人主观性的这种主张进一步加强了科学的西方“自我”与异国情调的东方“其他”之间不可逾越的文化差异，从而导致了混合或炼金人物的产生，而不是整体美国人。本文着眼于她在《百种秘密感官》中使用异国和超自然的比喻，探讨了谭如何在她的小说中永久保留西方和东方的刻板印象，从而沉迷于新时代种族或新东方主义，作为她渴望属于的一部分美国白人知识界。