论《喜福会》中的母女矛盾_英语论文

On Mother-Daughter Conflicts in The Joy Luck Club

摘要

作为二十世纪最富盛名的华裔女作家之一，谭恩美致力于对母女关系以及当今华裔生活境遇的研究。她的五部长篇小说，细腻刻画了华裔家庭中的母女关系，受到了文学界的一致好评。以母女关系为基础，谭恩美的小说充斥着母女间错综复杂的情感：纠葛与包容，并且由此产生了其小说中两对基本的母女相处模式：矛盾模式与融合模式。她也借此展现出华裔家庭在美国不易的生存情况。通过对谭恩美以及其代表作《喜福会》的研究，我们可以对华裔家庭的母女关系有进一步的了解，同时反思自我，为我们解决自身家庭关系提供帮助。

关键词：谭恩美；《喜福会》； 华裔；母女关系；矛盾；融合

Abstract 

Amy Tan, who is one of the most famous female Chinese American writers, explores mother-daughter relationship and the Chinese –American experiences. She has written five influential novels between mother and daughter in Chinese American family and has been highly appraised by the specialists in the literature field. Based on mother-daughter relationship, Amy Tan’s novels are full of mixed feelings including entanglements and tolerances. So there are two basic relation modes came into being: contradiction mode and conciliation mode. Amy Tan also uses these ways to describe the survival of Chinese in America. By researching Amy Tan and The Joy Luck Club we can get a deeper understanding about mother-daughter relationship in Chinese American families as well as do some self-reflections to help us dealing with our own family issues.

Key words：Amy Tan; The Joy Luck Club; Chinese-American; mother-daughter relationship; contradiction; conciliation