This study explores the evolution of three literature works namely Fifth Chinese Daughter by Jade Snow Wong; The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan; Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng over time and examines the feelings of belonging and security experienced by the female characters in these works. The research objectives are to identify the influences of the authors_ social and cultural backgrounds on their novels; to classify the faces of the absence of security and belonging among the female characters and to explore the manifestations of the security and belonging as represented in the selected novels. This study adopts a qualitative research approach to answer the research questions raised according to the research objectives. The findings reveal that the three authors present distinct narrative landscapes due to their individual growth paths from different cultural influence of the times and they are increasingly diluting the factor of racial identity in t.....

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