A Study of Spatial Representation in Modern Ethnic American Literature

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The purpose of the research is to examine how ethnicity is delineated as spatial representation of place and landscape. It considers how Chinese American writer Maxine Hong Kingston shows in her work, China Men, that Chinese immigrants experience American places from a perspective that differs from the traditional views such as Frontier, Pastoral, and American Sublime. The study also examines how the mythic stories closely related with Laguna Pueblo landscape are central to reading Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko's work, Ceremony. With these works, the works of some major Vietnamese American writers are also considered. The research demonstrates that ethnicity is represented as a specific place from which people weave their own stories.