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The Writing Of Relationship Between Mother And Daughter In Amytan's Novels

Posted on:2011-04-11Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H YangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360305461145Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Amy Tan is one of influenced female Chinese American writer in the literature field of modern American.Her five novels including The joy luck club, which makes a real affecting description of relationship between mother and daughter in American Chinese family, provokes great criticism. She puts mother-daughter relationship to the contradictions and conflicts to express the survival of Chinese in the united states. This thesis will be based on the text,and demonstrate the confusion which Amy Tan uses relations of mother and daughter to try to find ego-construction by visual angle. The thesis has four parts:Part one:Introduction.Carding the research overview around the world about Tan Amy's novel,and summarizing its research trend to find the deficiency about Tan Amy's novel including mother-daughter relationship in the past study. To insufficient, I think Amy Tan's write is through the description of mother-daughter relationship to try to find the life puzzlement of herself? and look for the way to resolve, especially containing ego-construction.Part two:Through analyzing, the most basic relation modes of mother and daughter, that is contradiction mode and conciliation mode which appease in the novel.And what the author points out in the contradictions and conciliations between mother and daughter contains pursuit and resolution in confusion of ego-construction.Part three:Excavate origins of Conflict between mother and daughter in Amy Tan's novels. She touches the origin,stride over culture affecting by writing again and again. Novels represent mother—daughter's change and origin of contradictory,Offering a scan for us, to know Chinese mother and American daughter in the novels, have offered self-cognitive experience to us too.Part four:Author write blood relationship pedigree's existence and influence. And put the way for the mother and daughter in the novels, through realizing mother's pedigree to knowing ourself. Embodying the author's create pursue,and gain the Satisfied through literature imagining. Release,Cure,Combine in writing, thus reach the settlement with puzzled life.Last part affirm Tan's achieve.I think tan's writing provide us a angle to know American Chinese family, and provide us to know ourselves and our family problems.
Keywords/Search Tags:AmyTan, Novel, Relationship of Mother and Daughter, Mother's Pedigree, Ego- Construction
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