摘要本文以美国华裔作家谭恩美的作品《喜福会》中四对母女冲突为出发点来分析她们之间微妙而复杂的关系，然后针对冲突进行研究，揭示隐含在母女冲突背后的文化冲突，及冲突产生的原因，通过对冲突原因的分析，旨在帮助人们了解不同环境下成长的母女之间的冲突是和不同的文化背景紧密相关，同时也向人们展示了美籍华人在美国生活的现状。本文主要内容由四部分构成。在第一部分，本文简要介绍了作者谭恩美和她的作品以及她写《喜福会》的原因。而第二部分则叙述了母女之间的不同冲突。第三部分从文化及母女各自的角度分析冲突的原因。第四部分为本论文的总结部分，主要关于《喜福会》中母女冲突的研究及相关研究的意义。21907
关键词：《喜福会》；母女冲突；文化原因;
Abstract
The thesis is based on the mother-daughter conflicts between four mothers and daughters in Amy Tan’s novel-The Joy Luck Club. It mainly studies on the conflicts to expose the cultural conflicts behind them and analyze the causes for these conflicts. The analysis on the causes aims at helping people understand the conflicts between mother and daughter who live in different environment are closely related to their different cultural environments. This paper includes four parts. The first part introduces the author and her works and the reason why she writes the book. The second part describes the mother-daughter conflicts. The third part gives the causes of the mother-daughter conflicts mainly from culture. The fourth part is the conclusion of the paper which is mainly about the meaning of the study of the mother-daughter conflicts and other related studies.
Key words: The Joy Luck Club; Mother-Daughter Conflicts; Culture Cause;
Contents
摘 要 i
Abstract ii
I. Introduction 1
II. The Conflicts Between Mothers and Daughters 2
2.1 The Conflicts of Different Language 2
2.2 The Conflicts of Different Beliefs 3
III . The Causes of the Conflicts Between Mothers and Daughters 6
3.1 The Cultural Causes 6
3.1.1 The Conflict Between the Humbleness and the Equality 6
3.1.2The Conflict Between Chinese Family Concept and American Inpidualism 8
3.1.3 The Conflict Between Chinese Modesty and American Straightforwardness 9
3.2 The Maternal Causes 11
3.3 The Daughters’ Causes 12
IV.Conclusion 12
Bibliography 14
Acknowledgements 15
The Study of Mother-Daughter Conflicts in The Joy Luck Club
I. Introduction
Amy Tan, born in Oakland, California, is one of the most famous Chinese American writers. Her Chinese immigrant parents’ experience had provided her with a sea of inspiration and writing materials for her works. Amy Tan personally experienced a complicated relationship between her and her mother as a second generation of immigrants, which makes it easy for her to describe the plots of the relationship between Chinese immigrant mother and the American-born daughter under the cross-cultural background. After the unexpected success of The Joy Luck Club, Tan published several other bestselling novels, including The Kitchen God’s Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, and The Bonesetter’s Daughter. Her first work of non-fiction, The Opposite of Fate, was published in 2003. Tan is also the author of two children’s books, The Moon Lady and The Chinese Siamese Cat. Her essay “Mother Tongue” has been widely anthologized. Tan’s most recent novel is Saving Fish from Drowning. 《喜福会》中母女冲突的研究:http://www.751com.cn/yingyu/lunwen_14325.html