流散者的困惑——美国华裔女性文学中的母亲形象解读

The Dilemma of the Diasporas --A Study of Mother Images in the Chinese American Women Literature

美国华裔女作家作为海外流散华人的一部分，对祖先文化一方面表现出深深的眷恋，想通过创作将中国文化推向世界；但另一方面，为了融入主流话语，建构自己的身份，又不免表现出对中国文化的疏离。在她们的作品中，中国文化／母亲被视为“他者”，而被扭曲。本论文从分析一些华裔女作家的身份入手，指出她们如何将中国文化／母亲塑造为与她们对立的他者，而予以拒斥。在此基础上，本文作者意在说明：为了融入主流文化，获得“美国作家”的身份，一些华裔女作家自觉与不自觉地成了美国新“东方主义”的同谋。

As a part of diasporic Chinese living ovemeas,Chinese Ameriean women writers,on the one hand, show a keen intert in their ethnic culture,and a determination to introduce it to the world through writing;but on the other,in order to be melted into the mainstream culture,and to get an identity of their own, they exhibit an alienation from the Chinese culture. Hence,Chinese culture/Mother is seen as ＂other＂ ,and to some degree becomes a twisted image in their writing. The present paper starts from the analysis of the rehtionship between the writers＇ dilemma of the dual identities and the causes of their alienation from ＂Mother＂, trying to point out how they depict Chinese culture/mother as the vague and imperious ＂other＂. Based on the above analyses, the writer of this paper concludes that in order to be a member of the mainstream culture and become a real American writer,some Chinese women writers have actually fallen unconsciously into the group of American Orientalists.