摘要
谭恩美的《喜福会》是华裔文学史上标志性的著作之一，它令亚裔小说进入了文学的主流。而谭恩美作为中国的华裔作家的代表，通过著作《喜福会》显示了她对文化冲突和融合的深刻见解。她通过讲述中国移民母亲和在美国成长的女儿两代人之间从冲突到和解的故事，生动地描绘了其中的母女联系与情感。这两代人之间的冲突代表这东方和西方之间的文化异同，而母女联系的和解意味着文化的融合、交流和发展趋势。
本文以小说《喜福会》中复杂的母女为例，尝试探讨中国文化之间的冲突与融合。论文由五部分组成。第一章为引言，英语毕业论文，主要介绍了中美文化、华裔作家谭恩美以及本文的探讨主体《喜福会》。第二章对国内外当前的探讨近况进行回顾，为后文的探讨打下基础。文献综述涵盖了三个方面：中美文化异同的探讨，小说《喜福会》主题的探讨以及学术界对《喜福会》当中母女联系含义的探讨。第三章和第四章是本文的中心部分。这两个章节分别对中美文化的冲突进行阐述和陈列，并应用《喜福会》中母女联系的小说细节对其进行详细略论；除此，第四章也将对母女之间和解的原因，即中美文化融合的原因进行略论。第五章作为结尾部分对全文要点的总结。
本篇论文研讨了《喜福会》中母女联系由矛盾冲突到缓和融洽的心路历程的文化缘由。这不仅是对《喜福会》中母女联系的一种诠释，更是体现了中美文化和谐发展和交流的必然趋势。
关键词：《喜福会》，母女联系，中美文化，英语论文范文，冲突与融合
Abstract
Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck club is one of the landmarks in Chinese American literary history, which helps to catapult Asian American fiction into the literary mainstream. Amy Tan, as one of the representative of Chinese American writers, shows her thoughtful understanding of cultural conflicts and integration in the The Joy Luck Club. Tan depicts the complicated mother-daughter relationship by telling the stories about generational conflicts and reconciliation of Chinese immigrant mothers and American-born daughters. The conflicts between the two generations can be seen as cultural differences between the East and the West. While the reconciliation of mother-daughter relationship is imply of the trend of cultural communication and development.
This thesis is tentative study about cultural conflicts and integration between China and America by taking an example of the mother-daughter relationship in The Joy Luck Club. The paper is made up five chapters. The first chapter gives a brief introduction of culture, Amy Tan and her novel The Joy Luck Club. The second chapter is about the literature review on cultural differences, themes of The Joy Luck Club and research on the mother-daughter relationship in The Joy Luck Club. The third and fourth parts are the main body which studies the cultural conflicts and integration of the mother-daughter relationship. In these two chapters, the details in The Joy Luck Club are applied to illustrate the cultural connotations, and the reasons of the cultural integration is also tried to be explained. The last part is a summary of the main points of this thesis.
This thesis investigates the cultural causes of the relationship between mothers and daughters changing from contradiction to harmony. What has been discussed is not only a complete explanation of the mother-daughter relationship in The Joy Luck Club, but also reflects the trend of the harmonious development and integration of Chinese and American culture.
Key words: The Joy Luck Club, Mother-daughter relationship, Chinese and American culture, Conflict and Integration |
