The Asian "Strange Beauty" On The Western Land

Amy tan is one of the most famous new Asian American writers. Her works are considered as an example leading to research the relationship of china and American by many scholars, meanwhile she makes a big success in the American modern culture , especially with her most famous book (The Joy Luck Club)which as the popular book in "New York Times" for nearly nine months. Orville Schell thinks that Amy tan actually invents a new pattern of American novel; " The Washington Post" praises that Amy tan creates a wonderful world with her genius story, which shines every page of whole books.Breaks the silence and absence, seeks the sound production to become the American ethnic minorities writer to express themselves, the establishment status effective way. All flowers blooms together in the American multicultural, the ancestor's literature receives the attention day by day under the background, and Amy Tan artistically developed and enriches the female in its four novels "to tell stories" the narrative strategy, Through to the China traditional culture folk custom "second time" the creative processing, clear revealed one kind of noticeable person of Chinese descent female to narrate the new writing style, has won reader's widespread affection and obtains the literary world the unceasing attention, has obtained important one in the American mainstream cultural market. From this point, is helpful to her work research to the understanding now the person of Chinese descent writer's writing present situation and the person of Chinese descent literature development situation also have certain practical significance to China and the West literature comparison research.This article from the literary ethnology angle inquired into Amy tan's four novel work, holds the novel "strange" the characteristic, thus grasps in the work the folk custom ingredient and the literature esthetic relations. Emphatically points out, blends, under the collision background in the China and the West dual cultures, the writer embarks carries on "two processing" to in the work folk custom ingredient the unique esthetic connotation from the special status. This kind of folk custom esthetic characteristic is different with the writer directly likely to create the literary and art work from the real life influence using the folk custom life, but contained the writer special background and the dual cultural influence unique esthetic connotation, therefore then has "the mystique" .This article take this as a breach, excavates the work literary arts folk custom esthetic final significance. At the same time, with this kind of unique folk custom esthetic characteristic counter-view its work discovers the two the relations, the revelation work in-depth esthetic connotation. Not only therefore I think this research to be possible to develop predecessor's field of vision, moreover also can unify immediately the more novel interdisciplinary studies. Research technique (literary ethnology), obtains has the theory value and the practice significance academic achievement.