| Summary: | 碩士 === 東吳大學 === 英文學系 === 95 === The thesis is divided into five chapters. Based on the main ideas of surrealism, the thesis uses the techniques of surrealistic painting while reading David Wong Louie’s Pangs of Love. By comparing the similarities between surrealist paintings and this collection of short stories, the thesis discusses Asian American men’s fear of racial castration and spiritual hysteria caused by suffering from false stereotypes and racial, social discriminations. According to surrealism’s emphasis on interior world, the thesis also focuses on Asian American men’s inner mind.
Chapter One is an introduction of this thesis. It firstly introduces the basic spirit and painting skills of surrealism, and secondly introduces the important themes in Asian American literature. Chapter Two analyzes “Social Science” and “The Mover,” reading them by Salvador Dalí’s paranoiac double image. Chapter Three analyzes “Bottle of Beaujolais,” “Pangs of Love” and “One Man’s Hysteria—Real and Imaged—in the Twentieth Century” by Max Ernst’s collage. Chapter Four uses the viewpoints of surrealist black humor to read “Birthday,” “Pangs of Love,” “Love on the Rock,” and “Warming Trends.” Chapter Five compares and contrasts Louie’s Pangs of Love and Surrealism, and examines Asian American men’s quandary in the society.
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