论《喜福会》中的文化冲突_英语论文

On the Cultural Conflicts in the Joy Luck Club

摘要

《喜福会》是著名华裔女作家谭恩美的处女作，小说主要讲述了四位移民美国的中国母亲和她们美国出生长大的女儿之间的矛盾冲突。故事以中美两国社会为背景，其中主要是以旧中国社会和现代的美国社会为背景，反映了中美两国在文化上的巨大差异。小说中四个母亲代表着传统的中国文化而四个女儿代表着现代的美国文化。小说深刻地描写了母女之间的矛盾冲突。受中国传统文化影响的中国母亲用中国化的价值体系观念去教导已经美国化的女儿，这引起女儿们对于母亲的极大不满，从而造成了母女之间的误解影响母女关系，但最终她们都理解对方母女关系得到缓解。本文主要从小说中体现出的集体主义与个人主义，孝道与平等主义，家庭教育方式，物质生活态度，婚姻观以及言语表达方式这些方面进行中美两国文化差异的比较分析。

关键词：冲突 文化 婚姻 教育 表达

Abstract

The Joy Luck Club is the first novel of Amy Tan, a famous Chinese-American writer. The novel mainly describes the conflicts between four mothers who immigrated from China and their daughters. The novel set on the background of  modern American and old Chinese society reflects big differences between the two cultures. In the novel, four mothers represent traditional Chinese culture and four daughters represent American culture. The novel describes the conflicts between mothers and daughters vividly. These mothers greatly influenced by traditional Chinese culture brought up their children with Chinese value system, which leaded to the daughters’ dissatisfaction and created some misunderstandings. The problems deeply hurt the relationships between the mothers and daughters, but they understood each other in the end. This thesis analyzes the conflicts of Chinese and American culture from the following aspects: collectivism and individualism, filial piety and equality, ways of education, concept of material life, marriage value and ways of expression.

Key words: conflict culture marriage education expression