摘 要
   
谭恩美是美国知名华裔小说家，她的第一部作品《喜福会》一经发表，获得了巨大的成功，确立了她在美国华裔文学中的重要地位。该小说主要描写四对母女的生活经历，深刻反映出华裔两代人在美国社会中为生存而挣扎斗争的现实。本论文将从后殖民女性主义的视角，解析第二代女儿的形象，以帮助人们更好的赏析谭恩美作品。本论文将从后殖民女性主义的概念入手，简述其主要论点，继而展现女儿们在中国文化和美国文化中被边缘化的形象，并结合小说内容分析形成这种形象的原因。之后探究边缘化女儿的觉醒。研究发现女儿们受种族、性别和文化的压迫，她们抛弃中国根源，努力追求融入美国社会却又不被接受。最终女儿们通过认同母亲和中国文化，寻回自己的声音，建立文化身份，实现了从边缘化“他者”到“自我”的形象转变。本论文通过解析华裔女儿的形象旨在引起人们对华裔女性的关注，更深入的了解谭恩美作品，对了解华裔女性文学有重要意义。

关键词：后殖民女性主义；女儿；种族；性别；身份

ABSTRACT
   
Amy Tan is a well-known Chinese American writer in America, whose first work The Joy Luck Club won great success after being published, earning fundamental position for her in Chinese American literature in the United States. The novel is mainly about the experiences of four pairs of mothers and daughters, which profoundly reflects the reality of their struggles to survive in American society. The paper will analyze the images of the second-generation daughters from the perspective of postcolonial feminism in order to help people better appreciate Amy Tan's work. The paper starts with the concept of postcolonial feminism, briefly introducing its main points. Then, it displays the marginalized images of the daughters between Chinese culture and American culture, meanwhile finds out the causes of marginalized images with the context of the novel. Later, it explores the awakening of the marginalized daughters. The research finds that suffering a lot from the suppression of race, gender and culture, the daughters try to abandon Chinese roots and want to integrate into American mainstream society but they are not accepted. In the end, daughters transform successfully from the marginalized "other" into "self" through identifying with their mothers and Chinese roots, finding their own voices and establishing identity as Chinese Americans. By analyzing the images of Chinese American daughters, the paper aims at raising people's attention about Chinese American women and letting readers have a further understanding about Amy Tan's work, and it is of much importance to learn Chinese American literature.

Key words: Postcolonial feminism; daughter; race; gender; identity