Amy Tan's Image Of "The Other" In The Joy Luck Club

Amy Tan is a Chinese American female writer.Her debut novel named The Joy Luck Club was listed in The New York Times best-selling list for 36 weeks and won the American National Book Award and Bay Area Novel Review Award.The novel is a group of mahjong groups called "The Joy Luck Club".It describes the process of mutual understanding by four misunderstandings and conflicts caused by differences in culture,ethnicity and identity.Amy Tan's dual identity and English writing provide a multi-perspective approach to research,which is of great significance for the study of Eastern and Western cultural exchanges,the eyes of westerners and the image of the "other".This article mainly uses the research methods of comparative literature imagery,supplements the theoretical research methods of post-colonialism,Said's Orientalism,and Luce Irigaray's feminism to study "other" image of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club.This thesis is divided into six parts:The first part of the first chapter mainly researches Amy Tan and The Joy Luck Club in terms of research purpose and significance,research status,research methods and scope.The second part focuses on the two aspects of Amy Tan's life experience and The Joy Luck Club.The third part focuses on the chapters discussed in this article,from the analysis of the mute and ugly Chinese male image to the analysis of the Chinese female image of "lack of subjectivity" and "lack of communication",and to the Chinese image of "face-saving,polite".Starting with the analysis of orientalist and feminist post-colonial cultural elements in the analysis,it also interprets the rigidity and reconciliation of mother-daughter relationship.The fourth chapter is the study of the Chinese food in the The Joy Luck Club.From the analysis of food and individual memory and Chinese imagination,ethnic boundaries and integration,the specific connotations of Chinese food are also referred to in the chapter.Conflicts are constantly being restructured,and second-generation immigrants will eventually acquire their more inclusive immigration identities in this day-to-day "structure" and "anti-structure".The fifth part is mainly to combine the era of creation and publication of works with the background of the United States,the Soviet Union and the Cold War era that ended with the victory of the American value.The interpretation of the image of the "other" under the identity of the immigration with the Chinese-American women.In the context of this era,Chinese Americans can acquire a hybrid identity while maintaining their American identity.Part sixth concludes the full text of the viewpoint and explores the research space of this paper.In a sense,the value of this article lies in the use of Irigaray'sintersubjectivitytheory to explore the relationship between mother and daughter and to propose the idea that eastern and western civilizations should coexist harmoniously with each other.