摘 要:

近几年来华裔美国文学在中国学术界受到越来越多的关注，也涌现了许多优秀的华裔美国作家。谭恩美就是其中之一，并一直被认为是把华裔美国文学带入美国主流文学的先锋人物。1989年33岁的她，发表了处女作《喜福会》，一经问世即获得巨大成功。非比寻常的洞察力和高超的写作技巧使谭恩美已经成为美国文坛少数族裔作家的代表人物。《接骨师之女》是她的第四部小说，同样是以她所熟悉的母女关系为主题。该小说描述了在美国出生的华裔女性露丝与她在中国出生长大的母亲茹灵之间的矛盾；同时，也演绎了茹灵与她的母亲宝姨之间的生生死死的关系。在这三代母女之间，存在着冲突与对立，发生了很多痛苦的人生悲剧；小说中的三位主人公都是通过文字的方式来诉说，记录下她们各自的经历也帮助她们自己从创伤中恢复。在小说的最后，母女之间都互相理解，各自也从创伤中走出来。本文是从创伤理论的角度来解读《接骨师之女》中的母女关系，并且通过创伤理论来研究她们之间产生矛盾的原因。通过研究得出结论：创伤理论可以为读者提供了一个新的视角来理解此类文学。

关键词：《接骨师之女》；母女关系；创伤；创伤理论

Abstract:

Chinese American literature has received more and more attention from Chinese academic circle and thus many great Chinese American writers have become famous. Amy Tan is one of the most famous Chinese American writers. She is also considered to be the leading writer who brings Chinese American literature into the mainstream of American literature. In 1989, she was at the age of 33 and published here first long novel The Joy Luck Club which has achieved great success. Nowadays, Amy Tan has become one of the representatives of Chinese American writers in the field of American literature because of her extraordinary thought and her excellent writing techniques. The Bonesetter’s Daughter, her fourth novel, has the theme of the mother-daughter relationship similar to her other novels. The novel exposes the complicated and contradictory relationship between Ruth, Chinese-American born in America, and her mother Luling who was a traditional Chinese mother. We can also find the complicated relationship between Luling and her mother Precious Auntie. Among the three generations, there developed a sharp contradiction and conflicting emotion. The main three characters recovered from trauma by writing their own experiences. In the end, they forgive each other and become reconciled. This thesis makes an analysis of the mother-daughter relationship in The Bonesetter’s Daughter from the light of trauma theory, and researches the causes of their conflicts from the theory of trauma. The analysis contributes to the conclusion: trauma theory provides the readers with a new way to understand the great literary woks.

Key words: The Bonesetter’s Daughter; Mother-daughter Relationship; Trauma; Trauma Theory