《喜福会》的女性主义叙事解读.pdf

Abstract

Amy Tan shot to fame and became one of the famous best-selling writers for the
work The 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 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 story-telling (The Joy Luck ), and her novel
is dazzling (The Joy Luck ).
One of the reasons that The Joy Luck Club acquires a large readership is that it is
narrated by those women whose suffering is similar to the Chinese women in Anerica.
By applying the feminist narratology, eight women were active in papers and gained
voice of authority. (Susan :264)Feminist narratology integrates the
analyses of form with 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 has 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, personal 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 and 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
authority of feminine narration by the adoptio