目录
Introduction 2
1. A Glimpse of Chinese American Literature's Yesterday and Today 2
2. Amy Tan and Her Novel The Joy Luck Club 8
3. Current Study on the Novel 10
Chapter I Orientalism 12
1. The Critiques of Orientalism 12
2.Stereotypes 16
3. Chinese Stereotyped images in the West’s Representations 18
Chapter II Amy Tan’s Revelation of Orientalism 23
1. Daughters’ Attitudes toward Mothers and Other Chinese 23
2.Mothers and Daughters’ Marginal Status 31
3.The Model Minority Stereotype 39
Chapter IV Tan’s Deconstruction of Orientalism 43
1. Breaking Silence 43
2. The Joy Luck Club 47
3. Independent and Self-Supporting Women 50
Conclusion 54
Introduction
During the second semester of my postgraduate study program, I’m lucky to follow my supervisor professor Zou Huiling to study American literature. In her daily supervisor, she lets us to read the history of American literature, literary works, and literary criticism. Then, she lets us try to analyze literary works in literary theories. What impresses me most is that she asks us to analyze Chinese American playwright David Hwang’s M.Butterfly in postcolonial theory. Since then, I pay more attention to Chinese American literature and I am interested in it. And I have got much more knowledge of postcolonial theory, especially the prejudice and stereotypical mind of the East in the West---- Orientalism. When I read Chinese American literary works, I am interested in Chinese American writer Amy Tan and her novel The Joy Luck Club, and find that the conflict between mothers and daughters and the existence environments of Chinese American in the novel, unlike some critics say, is only a generation gap; it is also unlike some critics think that the novel caters to the mainstream culture and helps American Orientalism. I think Amy Tan, as a Chinese American writer between two worlds, from the multicultural perspective, not only discloses the phenomenon of American racist prejudice of Chinese Americans, but also deconstructs the stereotyped images of Chinese. So I decide the subject of my dissertation to focus on Chinese American literature and the Chinese American writer Amy Tan’s idea expressed in The Joy Luck Club. It is generally acknowledged that The Joy Luck Club is one of the most important works of Chinese American literature, however, critics’ evaluations on it are still in dispute. Response to the different disputes on The Joy Luck Club, my study’s significance lies in the fact that: it can help to bring about a correct and fair criticism about the idea of the novel.

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