不同于其他华裔女作家,严歌苓移民题材小说既不写道家房中术这种东方式奇观,也少剖析古老中国割股疗亲的愚孝习俗,她着重描写的是移民在新大陆感知的文化隔阂和情感压抑,试图在日常场景中,展现移民们对既可融入西方社会,又不失去自身主体性 Unlike other Chinese-American women writers, Yan Geling immigrants have neither written the Eastern wonders of house-building techniques nor analyzed the obscenity and filial customs of the ancient Chinese mowing and treating her relatives. She focuses on the cultural barriers immigrants perceive in the New World And emotional depression, trying to show in everyday scenes immigrants can both integrate into Western society without losing their subjectivity