喜福會(huì)的女性主義敘事解讀

1、分 類 號(hào)： 密 級(jí)： 學(xué)校代碼： 學(xué) 號(hào)： 碩士研究生學(xué)位論文 碩士研究生學(xué)位論文 Feminist Feminist Narratological Reading on Narratological Reading on The Joy Luck Club Th

2、e Joy Luck Club 《喜福會(huì)》的女性主義敘事解讀 《喜福會(huì)》的女性主義敘事解讀 陳文婷 陳文婷 院 所：外國(guó)語(yǔ)學(xué)院 導(dǎo)師姓名：曾燕冰 學(xué)科專業(yè)：英語(yǔ)語(yǔ)言文學(xué) 研究方向：英美文學(xué) 二○一二年 五月 I Abstract Amy Tan shot to fame and became one of the famous best-selling writers for the work The

3、Joy Luck Club in America. As a female Chinese-American writer, Amy Tan successfully edged herself into American mainstream culture after Kingston and since then, American publishers started paying much more attention to

4、Chinese American writers and more of their works entered into mainstream society which set off a boom of Chinese American literature. Her narrative skills were also highly praised and she herself was honored as a master

5、story-telling (The Joy Luck Club.2006), and her novel is dazzling (The Joy Luck Club.2006). One of the reasons that The Joy Luck Club acquires a large readership is that it is narrated by those women whose suffering is s

6、imilar to the Chinese women in Anerica. By applying the feminist narratology, eight women were active in papers and gained voice of authority. (Susan Lanser.1992:264)Feminist narratology integrates the analyses of form w

7、ith the study of ideology, and therefore remedies the weakness of feminist literary criticism and structuralism narratology. In a classical work Fictions of Authority: Women Writers and Narrative Voice, Susan S. Lanser h

8、as proposed three types of narrative voices to indicate that for women writers, to balance the relation between different groups of readers, voice of authority should be established in three ways, authorial voice, person

9、al voice and communal voice. Because the female Chinese-American writers were suppressed by male dominance, by using voice cleverly, women writers will be able to make her female characters claim their social positions a

10、nd rights, and deconstruct voice of male discourse. This thesis is an attempt to probe into the narrative voice of The Joy Luck Club from the perspective of feminist narratology, and discusses how Amy Tan achieves the a