[摘要]
David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly and Frank Chin’s Donald Duk are two works
on Asian American masculinity which needs to be reconstructed urgently. The
essence of masculinity implies something that one needs to fight with others
to ensure it. It is also the thing that each of the East and the West claims
to be its legitimate agent. Interested in how Asian American masculinity is
performed in these two works, I employ Hegel’s Master-Slave paradigm and Lacan
’s Self-Other theory incorporated with the Phallus complex and sexual economy
to unravel the power dynamics working in Asian American male’s consciousness
as well as between the East and the West. Song Liling in M. Butterfly is a
genderized Chinese man who exploits the Oriental fantasy to its highest
extent; while Donald Duk is an Americanized Chinese American boy who seeks to
claim America by performing the patriarchal masculinity. Both works reveal
the Master-Slave paradigm which is a never-ending tug of war: Asian American
men are struggling with American men for the recognition of masculinity, the
position of Master. This thesis aims to be a reexamination and a
reconstruction of Asian American masculinity as a whole.
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