喜福会中母爱主题的文化阐释学士学位论文.docx

1、喜福会中母爱主题的文化阐释学士学位论文A Cultural Interpretation of Maternal Love in the Joy Luck Club喜福会中母爱主题的文化阐释AbstractThe Joy Luck Club is written by Amy Tan，a famous Chinese American writer. In the novel, she presents the stories of four Chinese-immigrant women and their American-born daughters. Each of the four

2、Chinese women has her own view of the world based on her experiences in China and wants to share her experiences with her daughter, and they never cease to try to build a bridge over the cultural differences and conflicts between them and their daughters with their maternal love of various forms. At

3、 first the daughters dont understand their mothers and the Chinese culture that their mothers represent, but as time elapses, the daughters begin to understand and appreciate their mothers past and accept their mothers in the end. In fact, it is the maternal love the Joy Luck Club mothers extend to

4、their daughters that finally makes their daughters understand them and the Chinese culture that they represent. In this sense, the maternal love not only symbolizes Chinese culture, but more importantly serves as a bridge over the mothers and daughters, and over Chinese culture and American culture.

5、Key WordsThe Joy Luck Club; conflicts; understanding; culture; maternal love 摘要喜福会是美国著名的华裔女作家谭恩美的代表作品。在小说中,她呈现给读者的是四位中国移民母亲与她们女儿之间的故事。这四位母亲都有着自己的世界观，她们的世界观又是立足于她们的中国生活经历。她们想把自己的经历一一讲述给女儿,并努力通过母爱的表达在她们与女儿的文化差异和冲突之间建立起沟通的桥梁。起初女儿们不能理解她们的母亲及其代表的中国文化,但随着时间的流逝,女儿们开始理解她们的母亲,同情她们母亲的悲惨过去并最终接受了她们的母亲。事实上，正是喜福会

6、中母亲给予女儿们无微不至的母爱才最终使得女儿们理解了她们的母亲及其代表的中国文化。因而, 喜福会中的母爱不仅是中国文化的象征,更重要的是母女理解与沟通的桥梁，也是中美文化交流的桥梁。关键词喜福会；冲突；理解；文化；母爱 IntroductionAmy Tans the Joy Luck Club is a masterpiece in Chinese-American literature. The Joy Luck Club mothers and their daughters have been the focus of research ever since the publicati

7、on of this book. Some researchers put the emphasis on the relationship between the mothers and daughters while some others believe that it is the writing style that makes Amy Tans the Joy Luck Club a success. For there are conflicts that have been vividly described in this book, some researchers mak

8、e the conflicts in the Joy Luck Club the theme of their thesis. However, in this thesis, maternal love will be the theme, and it will be interpreted from a cultural point of view. Through the stories of the Joy Luck Club, the secret-laden lives of four Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-bo

9、rn daughters are shown in front of the readers. The daughters reject their mothers seemingly constant criticism of everything they choose, from husbands to hairdos. They view their mothers warnings as irrelevant, and their advice as intrusive. The daughters do not know what has inspired their warnin

10、gs and advice: the hardships their mothers suffered in China before coming to the United States. Thus, as the mothers see it, their daughters are flailing in their modern American circumstances, unable to use what is “in their bones,” the familys inheritance of pain that led to their determined stre

11、ngth for survival, which their mothers try to bequeath them. The mothers, meanwhile, watch with heartache as their daughters marriages fail, as they expect less and less and so accept less and less. Conflicts have become something that prevents the understanding and communication between mothers and

12、 daughters. In fact, all the conflicts are caused by cultural differences. The Joy Luck Club mothers have accepted and been deeply influenced by Chinese culture, while their daughters are born and grow up in the United States and know little about Chinese culture. What they have accepted is the Amer

13、ican mainstream culture which is somehow contradictory with Chinese culture.However, due to the maternal love of the Joy Luck Club mothers, the mothers and daughters finally understand each other. The maternal love in the Joy Luck Club helps the daughters understand their mothers; furthermore, its s

14、ignificance lies in that it serves as a bridge of cultural understanding between Chinese culture and American culture. I. Conflicts Between Mothers and Daughtersin the Joy Luck ClubConflict is the main plot in the Joy Luck Club. Because the two generations are born and grow up in different cultural

15、environments, the Joy Luck Club mothers and their daughters have many conflicts. The mothers are deeply influenced by the traditional Chinese culture, while their daughters are born and get educated in the United States, whose culture is a completely different one. Thus the Joy Luck Club mothers and

16、 daughter can never understand each other. The daughters at first have a strong prejudice against their mothers and the Chinese culture. Born in the United States and brought up in American mainstream culture, they inevitably hold a prejudice against their mothers and the Chinese culture. They believe that American culture is superior to Chinese culture. In their eyes, their mothers symbolize backwardness and ignorance. They