中國故事與美國生活——論喜福會的寫作策略

1、華中科技大學(xué)碩士學(xué)位論文中國故事與美國生活——論《喜福會》的寫作策略姓名：陳占偉申請學(xué)位級別：碩士專業(yè)：英語語言文學(xué)指導(dǎo)教師：胡泓20090521華 中 科 技 大 學(xué) 碩 士 學(xué) 位 論 文 I Abstract The Joy Luck Club is one of the most influential works that Amy Tan has written since 1989. This novel with sixt

2、een chapters which are divided into four parts tells the stories of four mothers who are Chinese-immigrant and their daughters who were born in America. Most existing criticism think that mothers’ Chinese stories stand f

3、or Chinese life while daughter’s represent American life. However, born in America, Amy Tan has been nurtured by American culture and has been deeply influenced by American ideology. She mainly gets familiar with Chinese

4、 culture through her mother’s tales. Moreover, she asserts that she is an American writer and she can impossibly have the viewpoint of Chinese writers. In spite of this, Amy Tan adopts many Chinese stories in her novel.

5、Then what is her purpose of adopting Chinese stories? To display Chinese culture or to represent American life? Through analyzing the four mothers’ Chinese stories, this thesis finds out these Chinese stories in fact con

6、vey American life: American dream, individualism, identity-vacancy and identity-seeking. In The Joy Luck Club, Chinese stories only provide the writing context for the writer. In this writing context Amy Tan represents A

7、merican life in the American view of point. This thesis contains six parts: The first part is the introduction of Chinese American literature, the writer and her works and literature review. The second part displays Ame

8、rican dream through Suyuan’s stories. The third part represents American core value, individualism, by Lindo’s stories. The fourth part transfers the issue of identity-vacancy in modern America by Ying-ying’s stories, wh