从《喜福会》看中美文化的冲突与融合

The conflict and integration of Chinese and American culture from The Joy Luck Club

《喜福会》以旅美的四对华裔母女为中心,分别描述她们几个家庭近百年来的遭遇,从而对比出中国女性从受尽辛酸屈辱的祖母辈逐渐成长为具有独立人格和经济地位的新一代女性。小说中在美国出生的第二代华裔女儿们大多排斥中国文化,而认同美国的价值观念,所以与自己的中国母亲产生各种各样的冲突,但在冲突中又走向融合。

Focusing on four pairs of Chinese mothers and daughters who immigrated to America, The Joy Luck Club described the stories in their families in recent hundreds of years and reflected the new generation of women who grew from their suffering grandmothers to personally and economically independent women. In this novel, the second generation daughters who were born in America almost rejected Chinese culture. They agreed with American values, so they conflicted with their Chinese mothers. They finally understood their mothers, and finished their culture identity. The culture of China and America began to merge.