《灶神之妻》男性形象分析
KeyWords: Amy Tan The Kitchen God’ s Wife Male images
摘 要谭恩美是当代著名的美国华裔作家，她在华裔文学中占据着重要的位置。在出版了第一部长篇小说《喜福会》后，谭恩美得到了国内外的广泛关注。作为华裔女作家，对美国主流文化来说，她是“他者” ；对以男权话语为主流的文坛而言，她亦是“他者” ，双重的边缘化赋予了谭恩美小说独特的女性主义色彩。综观《灶神之妻》的相关研究，国内外的学者和批评家都着重关注母女关系、文化认同等，而忽略了对其中男性形象的研究。本论文旨在分析《灶神之妻》中的两个主要男性形象，从而探究作者的创作意图和书中男性形象的描写的启示，主要包括华裔美国人如何在不同文化的冲击中建立自己的文化身份。
毕业论文关键词：谭恩美 《灶神之妻》 男性形象
Contents
Abstract.i
摘要ii
Contents.iii
Chapter One Introduction.1
1.1 Research Background.1
1.2 Literature Review.1
1.3 Research Significance2
1.4 Overall Structure3
Chapter Two Male Images in The Kitchen God’ s Wife.3
2.1 The Chinese Male Image in The Kitchen God’ s Wife.3
2.2 Chinese American male Image in The Kitchen God’ s Wife5
Chapter Three Analysis on Tan’s creation of Male Images.6
3.1Amy Tan’s cultural identity6
3.2“Talk story” from her mother8
3.3 On the Pursuit of Commercial Interests.8
3.4 Enlightenment of Amy Tan’s Strategies in Creating Male Images9
Chapter Four Conclusion.10
References13
Chapter One Introduction1.1 Research BackgroundAmong the Chinese American writers, female writers deserve researchingparticularly. Amy Tan, a typical Chinese American female writer, insists on theChinese model and American value and focus on the relationship between mother anddaughter, striking the American society and creating a literature with perpetualhistorical meanings and commercial values. On the publication of Amy Tan’s firstnovel, The Joy Luck Club (1989), she earns her name in the literature field and thenovel becomes favored children for critics and readers. While for her second novel,The Kitchen God’ s Wife (1991), the number of researches related to which is smallerthan its predecessor.
1.2 Literature ReviewAmy Tan’s novels depict mostly the conflicts, communication andreconciliation between mother and daughter, unveiling the real life of the twogenerations of Chinese Americans with totally different values. Western scholarsmainly focus on the ideology, feminism and ethnic identity like Amy Tan: Author ofThe Joy Luck Club(Kramer, Barbara,1996) and Amy Tan: A CriticalCompanion(Huntley, E,1990). Domestically, studies in Amy Tan’s novels can bepided into comprehensive study and studies targeting at one perspective such asculture, post-colonialism, feminist, narratology and Chinese mystery imagery. In 1990s, there are only 18 articles of related studies on male images in Amy Tan’s novel.In 2003, Wang Guanglin published “Remodeling Chinese Male Image of Masculine” ,indicating the Chinese American male writers’ feeling of the Western discourse in theChinese men. Zhang Limin’s “The Chinese Male Images in Amy Tan’s Works” (2011)analyzes the male characters in two novels The Bonesetter’ s Daughter and The JoyLuck Club to analyze separately from the perspective of “Yellow Peril” in mainstreamAmerican society, American exclusion policy and Tan who has a double cultureidentity to investigate the reason for appearance of stereotyped male image. Xu Danand Cheng Zhouli’s “The Hideous Other, Abortive Me -- An Interpretation of ChineseMale Image in The Joy Luck Club” (2011) dissects the features of Chinese maleimages. Wang Yu published “The Fate of Male Characters in the Chinese AmericanLiterary—taking The Bonesetter’s Daughter as an example”(2013) compares the maleimages from Chinese and American novels to explore the relationship betweendifferent fates. In conclusion, there are few studies on male images and thecomparison between Chinese and American male images in Tan’s works. In addition,scholars pay less attention to the male images in The Kitchen God’ s Wife. Studies onmale characters in The Kitchen God’ s Wife play an important role in studying AmyTan’ novels.