“忆苦”还是“思甜”:透析《喜福会》中的东方“他者”形象

Past Misery or Present Happiness:the Oriental Otherness Figure in The Joy Luck Club

《喜福会》是美籍华裔女作家谭恩美的成名作,小说描写了四位中国母亲和她们的女儿从误解、冲突到理解的故事。该文拟从后殖民女性主义角度出发,解读这部以女性为主体的小说。进而论证,在这种"忆苦思甜"的叙事模式下,小说中的女性形象乃至东方形象不自觉地落入了"他者"化的窠臼。

The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan's fame-setting fiction, is a novel about the misunderstanding, the conflicts and the understanding between four Chinese mothers and their four American daughters. The author attempts to interpret this novel from the perspective of post-colonial feminism, for this novel takes the female figures as the subject and it is characterized by its strong feminist consciousness. Based on this, the author further argues that, in the mixed narrative pattern of 'past misery'and 'present happiness', the female figure as well as the oriental figure fall into the trap of 'otherness'.