《喜福会》的儒家思想研究 On Confucianism in The Joy ....pptVIP

《喜福会》The Joy Luck Club The Joy Luck Club Characters The Mothers The Daughters Suyan Woo Jing-mei Woo An-mei Hsu Rose Hsu Jordan Lindo Jong Waverly Jong Ying-ying St.Clair Lena St.Clair Plot: Four parts: Part 1 The mothers recall their relationships with their own mothers, and they worry about their daughters. Part 2 The daughters relate their childhood relationships with their mothers. Part 3 The daughters narrate their adult troubles in marriage and with their careers. Part 4 The mothers struggle to offer solutions and support to their daughters, in the process learning more about themselves. Literature review Many writers have done some research on Amy Tan and The Joy Luck Club.Most of them study it from different perspectives of literature, there are Hsu Li-tsui, Liu Hong, Ma Li, Shi Pingping and so on. Hsu Li-tsui Feminism 1 the attitudes of mothers to their daughters 2 the unimportant and peripheral position in The Joy Luck Club 3 the interracial marriages with different results Liu Hong The criticism of the second generation to Chinese ethics 1 different culture: filial piety vs individualism 2 different communicative style: Chinese language:evasive vs English: clear simple direct Ma Li conflicts and solutions 1 racial conflict 2 sexual conflict 3 the conflicts of both languages and cultural values Shi Pingping Feminism 1 racial politics 2 sexual politics Purpose and significance This paper deals with the Confucianism in the following aspacts: 1 parental intervention; 2 the?traditional?ethics that men are superior to men 3 face issue---Chinese social hypotaxis From three aspects I want to know what is the author’s attitude towards Confucianism and the changes of Confucianism in U.S. Methodology Marxist Criticism: Marxist critics maintain that literature does not exist in some timeless, aesthetic realm as an