Abstract The Joy Luck Club is written by Amy Tan, a famous Chinese American writer in the end of 1980s. This novel is her most well-known work, which has been translated into 35 languages. It is highly praised just after it is published and has remained on the New York best seller list for eight months long. Amy Tan mainly presents the experience and the fate of four mothers immigrating from China and their American born daughters. This article aims to analyze how mothers and daughters broke the silence and fought for their own right from the angle of female consciousness. This thesis is pided into six parts. Chapter One mainly introduces the Amy Tan and her work. Chapter Two is the critics’ study on the current situation of this novel. Chapter three and four mainly introduce the female consciousness of mothers and daughters in The Joy Luck Club. Although they are in absolutely different society environment, both two generations are oppressed by men. Mothers choose to leave their country and settle down in America and daughters break their marriage yoke. Facing the male oppression, they change from silence to eruption and eventually realize female consciousness. Chapter Five mainly states some reasons of female consciousness about mothers and daughters. The final part is conclusion. In contemporary society, female discrimination still exists in some parts of the world. So the theme of study on female consciousness is still meaningful. 56973
Keywords: The Joy Luck Club；oppression；female consciousness；awakening；rebellion
摘要《喜福会》是20世纪80年代末著名美国籍华裔女作家谭恩美所作。这本小说也是她最知名的作品，已经被翻译成35种语言。一出版即大获成功，当年曾经连续八个月荣登《纽约时报》畅销书排行版。谭恩美在书中主要描述了四位从中国移民的母亲和她们在美国出生的女儿的遭遇和命运。本文正是从女性意识的角度，分析和研究小说中的母亲和女儿们是如何打破沉默，为自己的自由和权利而奋斗的。本文分为六个部分。第一章主要介绍了谭恩美和她的作品，第二章，是评论家们对这部小说研究现状。三四章主要介绍了《喜福会》中母亲和女儿的女性意识。尽管她们处于完全不同的社会环境，但两代人都受到了男性的压迫。母亲选择离开自己的国家在美国定居，女儿则打破了她们的婚姻枷锁。面对男性的压迫，她们从沉默到爆发，最终女性意识得到了觉醒。第五章主要阐述了母亲和女儿们意识觉醒的原因。最后一部分是结论。在当代，女性歧视在某些地方仍然存在。所以，对女性主义主题的研究还是很有意义的。
毕业论文关键词：《喜福会》；压迫；女性意识；觉醒；反抗
Contents
1. Introduction 1
2. Literature Review 2
3. The Awaking and Resistance of Mothers 3
3.1 Traditional Chinese Women’s Social and Family Status 3
3.2 The Mothers’ Female Consciousness 4
4. The Awaking and Resistance of Daughters 7
4.1 Chinese American Women’s Social and Family Status 7
4.2 The Daugthers’ Female Consciousness 8
5. The Reasons of Female Consciousness in The Joy Luck Club 10
5.1 The Reasons of Mothers’ Female Consciousness 10
5.2 The Reasons of Daughters’ Female Consiousness 11
6. Conclusion 12
Works Cited...13
1. Introduction 浅析《喜福会》中女性意识的觉醒:http://www.youerw.com/yingyu/lunwen_61557.html