传统重压之下的被扭曲——《灶神之妻》中雯丽母亲形象的文化解读

Distortion under the Great Pressure of Tradition——A Cultural Interpretation of the Image of Mother Wens Mother

《灶神之妻》是美国当代华裔女作家谭恩美的第二部畅销小说。国内外学界对书中雯丽母亲的文化形象鲜有关注,这个人物形象主要呈现以下文化特点:"有意识"自由与"无意识"束缚、自我与现实的冲突、人格的独立与依附。通过对这个女性形象的剖析,后世读者对民国女性在传统重压下被扭曲的生存境遇,以及近代中国社会文化转型的艰难历程有更为真切和全面的认知。

The Kitchen God’s Wife is the second best-selling novel of contemporary female Chinese-American Amy Tan.The cultural image of Winnie’s mother in the book has gone unnoticed by domestic andforeign scholars.This character shows such features as conscious freedom and unconscious constraint,conflictbetween reality and ego,dependence and independence of personality.An analysis of the cultural image canhelp readers get a better understanding of Modern China’s hardship in the transformation of social culture aswell as the females’distorted life under the great pressure of tradition in the Republic of China.