摘要

谭恩美的处女作《喜福会》是在西方主流社会中取得巨大成功的少数华人作品之一。它将华人移民的生活细节和中国文化元素展现给大家，让这个正被忽视的群体在美国白人社会中从新受到重视。谭恩美借助该作品成为美籍华裔作家的一个代表人物。自小说问世以来，中外评论家便从多视角对其进行广泛评论。有从文化差异和母女冲突做研究的，有从女性主义和东方主义进行探索的，也有从文体学和语言学角度对小说独特叙事技巧和人物对话作分析的。

本论文主要探索《喜福会》中体现的母女关系以及母女之间的情感纠葛。揭示母女关系由相互否定、对抗、沉默、接受再到最终和解的变化的过程，并尝试解析导致母女关系变化和情感纠葛背后的文化原因。论文共分为五个部分，第一部分简要介绍了作家作品、该小说的研究现状和论文结构；第二部分分析母亲对中国文化的拥护和对美国文化的抵制，以及女儿对美国文化的迷恋和对中国文化的偏见；第三部分解析母女误解的原因，即语言障碍、不同的价值观和意识形态导致了女儿不情愿与母亲的接触和沟通。第四部分解析母女冲突与和解，解释冲突的缘由与和解的一些细节。最后部分做一个总结，得出结论：文化影响是一种难以抗拒的力量，就是因为它才导致了母女的情感纠葛及关系的变化。

关键词：《喜福会》，谭恩美，母女关系，文化冲突，文化融合

Abstract
Amy Tan’s first novel The Joy Luck Club is one of the few books by Chinese American writers that get a great success in the western mainstream society. It presents the details of Chinese immigrant life and Chinese culture elements to the readers, and brings the western attention to the Chinese-American group who are being gradually neglected.
This thesis mainly analyzes the changes of the mother-daughter relationship and their emotional entanglement, which experience five different stages including mother-daughter mutual denial, rebellion, silence, acceptance and final reconciliation. It also tries to explain the cultural causes of these changes. It can be found that cultural differences and conflicts will eventually end with cultural fusion through cultural exchanges.
There are five parts in this thesis. The first part gives a brief introduction to the author and The Joy Luck Club as well as the critical response of the novel. Then it explores the mother-daughter mutual identity denial, mothers’ obsession to Chinese culture and daughters’ obsession to American culture. Next, it analyzes the causes why mothers and daughters misunderstand each other. The fourth part studies the mother-daughter conflicts and reconciliation and try to find some details to explain the reasons. Finally, it concludes that cultural difference is the most powerful thing that determines the mother-daughter relationship changes.
Key words: The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan, mother-daughter relationship, cultural conflicts, cultural fusion