4Paul Lauter, Richard Yarboroug, ed., The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Third Edition.Volume 2. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company,1998. pp. 2965 - 2977.
5前者如赵建秀对《喜福会》的评论,Frank Chin et al eds. , The Big Aiiieeeee : An Anthology of Chinese American Literature and Japanese American Literature,New York: Meridian, 1991, pp.1-9;后者中具有代表性的是: Melanie Mc Alister, "( Mis - )Reading The Joy Luck Club," in Asian America:Journal of Culture and Arts, no. 1, (winter 1992),pp. 102- 118.
7"模范少数族裔"是美国东方主义的一个重要组成部分.美国白人原本把亚裔美国人笼统地界定为"不可同化的异族",为了做出平等的姿态,成功融入美国社会的外国人被冠之以"模范少数族裔"的名称,而事实上这是对东方文化的进一步排斥.见E.M.Kim,"The Myth of Asian American Success," Asian American Review,2:1(1975), pp. 140-141; Lisa Lowe, Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics, Durham & London: Duke University Press, 1996, p. 68. 另见 Sau - ling Wong, Reading Asian American Literature: From Necessity to Extravagance, Princeton:Princeton University Press, 1993, p. 6.
8英语中articulation一词有"思想的表达"之意,又可以指"关节或牙齿之间的互相联接、咬合",见陆谷孙主编的《英汉大词典》,上海译文出版社,1993年,第91页.斯图而特·霍尔的articulation theory实际上包含了这两种意思.参见David Morley & Chen Kuan - Hsing. Stuart Hall:Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies, London & New York: Routledge, 1996, p. 115.
9E. D. Huntley, Amy Tan: A Critical Companion,Greenwood Press, 1998, p.71.
10[10]Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club. New York: Ivy Books, 1989. P.125, p.83.
