joy luck 跨文化交际 辽宁师范大学 选修课课件 外语学习.ppt

Background Information About the author Amy Tan Amy Tan, also known as An-Mei Tan, was born in Oakland, California, in 1952. The Joy Luck Club is a masterpiece that blends aspects of autobiography, fairy tale, history, and religion. Amy Tan uses and expands upon events from her own life, from her mother’s past, from Chinese tradition, from her religious upbringing, and from history to create her piece of fiction. Setting Though The Joy Luck Club takes place primarily in San Francisco in the United States, much of the novel occurs in flashbacks, set in China. The novel includes anecdotes and stories from three generations of women, spanning a period of time that is sixty to eighty years in length and ending in the 1980s, when the book was published. Major characters I. Jing-Mei, June Woo Mother: Suyuan Woo II. Waverly Jong Mother: Lindo Jong Fiance: Rich III. Lena St. Clair Mother: Ying-ying St. Clair Husband: Harold IV. Rose Hsu Mother: An-Mei Hsu Husband: Ted Jordan Meaning of The Joy Luck CLub The Joy Luck Club was first started by Suyuan in Kweilin, China, to keep the women from thinking about the horrors of war surrounding them. They would play mah jong and gamble, so that each week they could look forward to winning, and they could eat, gossip and joke. Then when she came to America in 1949, she began another Joy Luck Club in San Francisco, with three other women who had painful pasts and she knew that the idea of Joy Luck would cheer them up. Plot Four older women, all Chinese immigrants living in San Francisco, meet regularly to play mah-jong, eat, and tell stories. Each of these women have adult Chinese-American daughters. The film reveals the hidden pasts of the older women and explores cultural conflict and the relationships between mothers and daughters. Theme The major theme of the novel is the difficulty of maintaining their native culture and a sense of their heritage when immigrants settle in America. They