《喜福会》中母爱主题的文化阐释论文.doc

《喜福会》中母爱主题的文化阐释论文.doc《喜福会》中母爱主题的文化阐释论文
Abstract
The Joy Luck Club is y Tan,a famous Chinese American migrant en and their American-born daughters. Each of the four Chinese en has her o and their daughters aternal love of various forms. At first the daughters don’t understand their mothers and the Chinese culture that their mothers represent, but as time elapses, the daughters begin to understand and appreciate their mothers' past and accept their mothers in the end. In fact, it is the maternal love the Joy Luck Club mothers extend to their daughters that finally makes their daughters understand them and the Chinese culture that they represent. In this sense, the maternal love not only symbolizes Chinese culture, but more importantly serves as a bridge over the mothers and daughters, and over Chinese culture and American culture.
Key aternal Love in the Joy Luck Club
Every mother loves her child or children. Although the Joy Luck Club mothers are very strict aternal love the four mothers impart to their daughters is just a typical Chinese one. The maternal love of Chinese mothers is not as direct as that of American mothers. Chinese mothers do not kiss and hug their daughters and say “I love you” to them like their American counterparts. (Yu Longyu 173).The Joy Luck Club mothers all love their daughters in a Chinese an in the preface of the Feathers From A Thousand Li Aerica I e. But over there