臺灣博碩士論文加值系統

本篇論文由伊黑蓋荷的觀點來詮釋譚恩美《喜福會》與《接骨師的女兒》中的母女關係，探討這兩部作品中女兒們「對抗母親」的過程，以及女兒如何蛻變為「疼愛母親」所造成的相異之處。
身為當代華美作家，譚恩美在她的作品之中揭露美國思想體系當中對母女互動的誤導，並將之融入華裔美國人的背景之中。譚恩美作品中的自傳色彩讓我們相信，她運用小說的形式書寫她和她母親之間的關係。因此，本文站在女兒的觀點來檢視母女衝突的原因、所造成的後果、以及女兒回過頭來疼愛母親的可能性。
論文第一章呈現本文的主旨、伊黑蓋荷論述的背景、以及譚恩美創作的文化及個人背景。第二章探究在譚恩美這兩部小說中母女衝突的原因。西方語言象徵界的「規則」引導女兒與母親發生激烈衝突以達成男性所定義的「成熟」。因此，在西方社會中，母女衝突是不可避免的。在《喜福會》與《接骨師的女兒》中，母女之間不同的文化背景更是加深了彼此之間的裂痕與衝突。第三章探討在「對抗母親」之後，華裔美籍的女兒們在生活中所遭遇的困境。伊黑蓋荷指出，西方語言象徵世界阻礙女兒對母親的愛。這樣的阻礙傷害了女兒們身分認同及主體性的發展，因此女兒們在生活當中會遭遇到許多的困難。第四章探討女兒「疼愛母親」的可能性，這如何幫助女兒克服生活當中所遭遇到的困難。此外，在華美文脈中，女兒如何透過認同母親來認同自己華裔美國人的身分。第五章總結本論文，並強調書寫這兩部作品對作者本身的意義。在這兩部作品的題銘中，譚恩美都將她的作品獻給她的母親及外婆。這兩部作品不同的情節發展，正記錄了作者本身透過探究自己與母親之間的關係而達到人格發展成熟的過程。這樣的過程也顯示，每一個女兒都能夠經由這樣的過程達到本身人格的成熟。

This thesis aims at interpreting mother-daughter relationships in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter’s Daughter through Luce Irigaray’s perspective to explore the two works’ similar process of the daughters’ “fighting their mothers” and their difference in whether the daughters’ attitude transforms into that of “daughtering their mothers.” As a contemporary Chinese American writer, Amy Tan has the freedom to reveal the fault in American ideology in the interaction between mothers and daughters and places it within the Chinese American context. The autobiographical characteristic of Amy Tan’s writing makes us believe that she is in some senses writing about her relationship with her mother in fictional forms. Therefore, this thesis focuses on the daughter’s viewpoints to explore the reasons for the conflicts between the daughter and her mother, the consequence of the daughter’s breaking away from her mother, and the possibility of the daughter’s turning back to love her mother.
Chapter One offers the dominant theme of this thesis, the theoretical background of Luce Irigaray’s perspective, and the cultural and personal background of Amy Tan’s creation. Tan’s being a contemporary Chinese American writer makes Irigaray’s theory applicable in the Chinese American context. Chapter Two scrutinizes the ground that causes the conflicts between these Chinese mothers and American daughters. The “rules” in the western symbolic order make the daughters antagonistically break away from their mothers for the male-defined maturity. Thus, conflicts between mothers and daughters are inevitable in western society. In The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter’s Daughter, the different cultural backgrounds between mothers and daughters just enlarge the fractures between them. Chapter Three presents the predicaments in these American daughters’ lives out of their fighting their Chinese mothers. According to Luce Irigaray, the prohibition of the daughters’ love for their mothers in the western symbolic world does harm to the daughters’ identity and subjectivity, which leads to numerous difficulties in the daughters’ lives. Chapter Four examines the possibility of the daughter’s turning back to love and further daughter her mother, which helps the daughter overcome her quandaries in life. Besides, in the Chinese American context, the daughter’s identifying herself as her mother’s daughter enables the daughter to identify herself as a Chinese American. Chapter Five sums up the main arguments of this thesis and interprets the meaning of writing The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter’s Daughter to the author Amy Tan. In the epigraphs of the two novels, Tan dedicates both of her works to her mother and her grandmother. The different developments of the two novels just record the process of Tan’s maturity through her exploration of her relationship with her mother, which suggests that every woman who is also a daughter can attain her genuine maturity through sincerely exploring her relationship with her mother.

Table of Contents
Chapter One
Introduction……………………………………………….……………1
Chapter Two
Daughters’ Fighting Their Mothers…………………….……………..12
Chapter Three
Predicaments in the Daughters’ Lives…………………………..…….33
Chapter Four
Daughtering the mother………………..……………………………. 55
Chapter Five
Conclusion……………...…………………………………………….84
Works Cited…………………..………………………………………92

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