《灶神之妻》中母女关系的文化解析

以美籍华裔女作家谭恩美的《灶神之妻》为分析文本,探讨了作品中母女关系所体现的文化内涵,进而分析作者作为少数族裔女作家面临着美国的强势文化,如何构建自身的文化身份。作者在小说中以个人的经历为素材,不仅在母女关系的基础上建构了一个颠覆父权制的女性世界,还把母女关系提升到两种异质文化的冲突与融合的层面上来。谭恩美在母女关系的主题中表现了性别的不平等以及文化的冲突,积极寻求自身的文化身份。

Cultural analysis of mother-daughter relationship at Amy Tan's The Kitchen God's Wife

Taken Amy Tan's The Kitchen God's Wife as analytical base,cultural connotation reflected in the mother-daughter relationships of the article was discussed.Furthermore,it was analyzed how Amy Tan could establish her particular cultural identity as an ethnic minority woman writer when confronted with the dominant American culture.Based on her own experience as an ethnic woman,the author not only builds a women world to deconstruct patriarchy,but also imbeds the conflicts and integration of two different cultures into mother-daughter relationships.Through motherdaughter relationships,Tan shows gender inequality as well as cultural conflicts and searches for her proper cultural identity positively.