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The Joy Luck Club tells the story of four immigrant women from China and their children who grew up in the United States.

Review of The Joy Luck Club

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Review of The Joy Luck Club

The title of the novel "The Joy Luck Club" was originally a gathering of mothers playing mahjong. These women immigrated to the United States for decades, but they were still obsessed with the traditional education they had received since childhood, clinging to China's thousands of years of infiltration in women's blood, and almost became a feudal patriarchal ideology. Their common ideal is to strictly educate and control their daughters, so that they can escape the fate of their generation of women and become happy women in their eyes. However, for the mother's control, the daughters blindly resisted in different ways. In this American society with unequal race, class and gender, two generations of women staged a tragicomedy from fighting with each other to reaching the same goal and agreeing with each other. In this tragicomedy, the most touching thing is not what the characters say, but what they can't say, touch or keep secret. Behind these words is silence. Here, silence has become a symbol, and its great destructive power has destroyed women's self-esteem, self-confidence and courage, making them lose their ability to survive in severe depression. However, once the silence is broken, this destructive power will disappear immediately, the long-suppressed humanity will be revived, and the balanced and harmonious relationship will be restored. Most of the mother-daughter stories in The Joy Luck Club are woven by the main thread of silence and breaking it.

One of the inspirations of The Joy Luck Club is that in the United States, the so-called multiculturalism, that is, the new pattern in which subcultures are consistent with mainstream culture, is essentially just a trick to hide people's eyes and ears, and it is a cover-up for subculture assimilation and psychological aggression. Then, China women, like other minority women, can finally enter the realm of "happiness" only by rediscovering their original selves, breaking the silence of culture and gender, and facing life with self-esteem, self-confidence and autonomy in their own way.

The change of the consciousness of the times depicts the weak position of women and the process of their constant struggle for change.

Women in the old China and women in the new American era lasted for more than half a century, or even nearly a century. Women are constantly looking for their place, from the oppressed and bullied old China to the United States, which is regarded as the most democratic and open country in the world, where women can participate in social affairs on an equal footing with men. This film gives us the best stage to show the change of women's status and the evolution of their personality destiny. Have women found their true selves? From the appearance, daughters no longer have the oppression of patriarchy and husband power that mothers have to endure, but mentally, women are not far away from their own bondage.

From the blood, from the slowly traced history, mothers expect that their tragedies will not repeat themselves, but those wounds have penetrated into their bone marrow. In the education of their daughters, they put high expectations, excessive sensitivity and the self-esteem of the oppressed on their daughters, resulting in a deep gap between mother and daughter and a daughter's incomplete personality.

Aunt Linduo, played by Zhou Caiqin, is a bright, cheerful and straightforward mother. She escaped from the arranged marriage alone. When she arrived in America, she had high expectations for her daughter. Her daughter is very talented at playing chess. After winning the championship, her photo appeared on the cover of a magazine. The excited mother pulled the child to praise all the way, but the child didn't like it. The mother looked at her coldly. When the child asked her forgiveness and wanted to continue playing chess, she said. It's not that simple to think about it. This angry remark dampened her daughter's confidence. From then on, she felt that her talent was far away from her, and her mother who refused to bow her head ruined her child's self-confidence.

Women's struggle is reflected in the family level. Taking the daughter as the carrier, the result is a trauma to their growth. Not only will it not succeed, but it will further harm women. Education with too clear purpose, forcing one's own strength on one's daughter, is a powerful force for another independent soul, depriving her of an independent education for her soul, and failing to achieve her own purpose, it will create a deep generation gap between mother and daughter, leaving her mind under abnormal education.

The weak in thought is the real weak. Looking back at their mothers, facing the oppression of the institutional society, they fought with their own intelligence and wisdom, successfully fled there and found freedom for themselves, but the trauma they caused in their daughters' hearts made them unable to find themselves. As a result, all four daughters took a detour, or their marriages were unhappy, or their lives lost their goals. The reason why they become "incomplete" people is that their personality is incomplete and distorted. They have always lived for others, or for their mothers or husbands, and never thought about living according to their true wishes.

Mothers later realized the danger. Because of high expectations, or the influence of my incomplete personality on my daughter, I extended my hands to encourage her.

Aunt Lisa Lu's daughter won the love of a boy with a prominent family background at school, but after marriage, she gave up her studies and devoted herself to her husband and family. Everything starts from her husband's request until she loses this relationship and divorces. Finally, with her mother's encouragement, she didn't want to tell her husband what she really thought, but her awakened self-awareness helped him rediscover her and they made up again.

Another aunt's daughter wants to live a strict AA life with her husband. This life is eroding her daughter's dignity. Her mother thought about her life and was called a bitch by her philandering husband. That kind of injury made her accidentally drown her child, and the wound would never heal. Her mother told her daughter that you were worthy of respect and left him. Later, my daughter found someone who cherished her and got happiness.

The mother-daughter relationship is both antagonistic and harmonious. When I was a child, high demands hurt my daughters. As adults, mothers use their own life experiences to unlock their daughters' hearts, help them know themselves, understand themselves and build up their self-confidence. Women and women eventually become partners rather than opposites, which is a good way to get rid of the weak position.

Women should know how to respect themselves, and mothers tell their daughters this truth. Only by self-respect and self-love can we love and be loved.

If you set yourself the position of the weak in advance, you can't get rid of it. Women's struggle must first start from realizing their own values. Realize that you are not weak, but equal. Only with such a healthy attitude can women be truly liberated. Compared with the abandoned pine nuts, they have never lived for themselves in their lives. All for men, fathers or lovers, even making faces and being abused. They have no self-esteem. This sense of losing women is not as good as the Joy Luck Club more than ten years ago, and it is simply inexplicable to be praised as a "god". The evolution and struggle of women's consciousness discussed in The Joy Luck Club and the fact that women find their own value and stand up for themselves are instructive not only to women, but also to every weak person.

The Joy Luck Club —— A picture introduction of the intersection of different cultures

"The old woman remembers spending a lot of money on a swan in Shanghai many years ago. "This beast," boasted the goose vendor in the market, "stretched his neck and turned into a goose." . Look, it's so beautiful that people can't bear to eat it. Then the woman took the goose across the ocean and went to America with great expectation. During the trip, she told Swan that I would have a daughter like me in America, where she didn't have to rely on her husband to make a living. No one will look down on her because she can speak fluent English; I want her to be a swan a hundred times better than expected. But when she arrived in this new country, immigration officials took her goose away. The woman waved her arms in horror, leaving only one feather as a souvenir. Now, after a long time, this woman wants to give this feather to her daughter and tell her that although this feather is worthless, it comes from a distant country and has always carried my expectations. "

Swans across the ocean bear the survival beliefs of four mothers born again after the disaster, the traditional spirit of personality freedom in China and all the expectations for their daughters. However, in the New World of America, they found that their beliefs and values could not be recognized by this "free country" between consciousness and unconsciousness. But they still tried their best to leave the feather that was worthless even if others saw it, hoping that one day their daughter would understand all their feelings.

Amy Tan and Her Joy Luck Club

Amy Tan's masterpiece The Joy Luck Club was published, and it has been on the The New York Times bestseller list for nine months in a row. From 65438 to 0990, this book won many literary awards, such as the Los Angeles Book Award, the National Book Award, the National Book Review Award, the Bay Area Book Review Novel Award and the Commonwealth Club Gold Award. This novel was later adapted into a film, which also aroused fierce repercussions at home and abroad. On the one hand, The Joy Luck Club has made such brilliant achievements because it describes the sufferings of four mothers in old China and is full of oriental colors, which caters to American readers' desire to know the mysterious ancient China. On the other hand, it is because the novel has a cross-cultural theme. By describing the generation gap and estrangement conflict between four pairs of mothers and daughters, the author reflects the cultural complex caused by the encounter of mother culture and heterogeneous culture-the conflict and integration of eastern and western cultures, and the world-wide theme that China people are struggling to find their own cultural identity in the collision of two cultures.

Like the descendants of immigrants described in the novel, Amy Tan has a dual identity. On the one hand, as a descendant of immigrants from China, she was influenced by China culture from her mother's story, with an indelible China cultural plot in her bones. On the other hand, as a second-generation immigrant who grew up in the United States, the surrounding environment and education are typical American styles. America is an immigrant society and a "melting pot". How to deal with the conflict between traditional culture and mainstream culture, that is, thinking about cultural identity, generally exists in the texts of minority writers. In The Joy Luck Club, the author, starting from his personal memory, broke away from the specific perspective of observing history and absorbing culture, magnified his own experience, raised family conflicts and mother-daughter conflicts to the level of cultural conflicts, and symbolized and allegorized them under the background of Chinese and American cultural traditions, which made the novel and subsequent films more cultural connotation and artistic tension. The four mothers described in The Joy Luck Club moved to the United States from Chinese mainland in the 1940s with the sufferings and traditional culture of old China. At that time, America was their paradise. In the United States, they hope that their daughters will never repeat the misfortunes of old China women and their mistakes. They have infinite hope for their children, and they want to plan their daughter's future according to their own ideals. However, these children born and raised in the United States have accepted American culture since childhood. In their view, the mother's thoughts and actions are both ridiculous and ridiculous, so the two sides hold their own opinions and do not give in to each other, resulting in deep contradictions. From a cultural point of view, the first half of the film shows the collision and conflict between Chinese and western cultures through the relationship between four pairs of mothers and daughters, while the second half describes the relationship between mother and daughter moving from conflict to reconciliation, thus constructing the cultural development prospect of eastern and western cultures moving from binary opposition to binary integration.

As a migrating ethnic group, China ethnic group is facing the dilemma of dual culture, and the conflict between the mother culture and the heterogeneous culture in life makes it impossible for them to fundamentally surpass the conventions of the original culture. Therefore, when different cultures collide, the cultural genes and rules deposited in the depths of memory will naturally appear. Post-colonial theorist Homi? Homi Bhabha's "strict examination of nationalism, reappearance and resistance, with special emphasis on a kind of contradiction and hybridity with the characteristics of colonial debate" is "an imaginative construction of culture and national identity." . This kind of "hybridity" is a subversive strategy of marginal vagrants, which permeates the mainstream culture with heterogeneous culture and is recognized by the mainstream culture.

"Aphasia" in Mother-daughter Communication —— The Collision between Chinese and Western Cultures

The communication barrier between two generations first comes from language. "As a signal, language reflects cultural prejudice and binds people's thinking.

Mode ",and" in the process of meaning coding through language, the situation outside the language is extremely important. In the film, we can find an interesting phenomenon. Even in the family, all members talk in English, but there are always some Chinese words in mothers' English, especially when they are eager to express a certain meaning. We believe that for mothers, Chinese will always be their mother tongue, just as China will always be their deep home. Language can be spoken fluently from their mouths at any time as long as they want. Therefore, Sue insisted on holding the "Joy Luck Club" because it is the habitat of traditional culture in the hearts of mothers, so that these strangers who are in foreign countries and wandering on the edge of mainstream culture can put on fine clothes, chat and tell stories in their mother tongue, and feel spiritual comfort in the strong local cultural atmosphere. But for their next generation, they are worried. Although she has "spoken fluent English", she "ignored their dream of coming to America". As time goes by, these second-generation immigrants have even completely forgotten that they were originally from China. They no longer use Chinese, but communicate in fluent English. Even on traditional occasions like playing mahjong, they don't allow their mothers to mix Chinese in their communication, because they don't know if they are "cheating". The language barrier naturally blocked the information exchange between mother and daughter to a great extent until the two sides fell silent.

In Chinese and English language environments, the signifier of the language symbol "family" is endowed with different signified meanings. In China's traditional concept, the family not only represents the absolute power of parents over their children, but also means the interdependence between parents and children. But American individualism values encourage everyone to struggle and emphasize self-realization and independence. The conflict between mother and daughter in the film reflects the collision of "family" values in Chinese and American cultures to some extent. Sue has always turned her "debt" to two twins whose whereabouts are unknown in the mainland into hope for her daughter, Jun. She hopes that her daughter will be born in the phoenix, and has been carrying out a "genius training plan" for you in a motherly way in her mind. When you resist, she strongly shouted: "There are only two kinds of daughters, who obey their mother's orders and do whatever they want, but this family can only accommodate obedience." However, how can a child who grew up in a "free country" understand his mother's pains? Not to be outdone, she yelled at her mother: "I am not your slave, this is not China, you can't force me!" Since then, the differences between mother and daughter have lasted for more than 20 years. Jun deliberately ignored his mother's expectations and eventually became a mediocre person. Wei Li has a talent for playing chess since she was a child, but she said angrily that she would never play chess again, because she didn't like her mother showing off her honor everywhere. Lin Duo, a stubborn mother, believes that her painstaking cultivation has not only failed to get the respect and reward her daughter deserves, but even such an understandable performance of being proud of her daughter is regarded as a shameful thing by her daughter, so she is disappointed, so that she no longer "interferes" with her daughter's life for a long time, and she always looks unhappy. The gap between mother and daughter was thus created, and "aphasia" lasted for more than 20 years.

The misunderstanding and estrangement between mother and daughter in the film is produced in the cross-cultural context, so this contradiction and conflict can be covered not only by the usual "generation gap", but also by the cultural power conflict between self/other, center/edge and west/east. As Said said in Orientalism: "The relationship between the West and the East is a kind of power rule and a complicated hegemonic relationship of different degrees." (3) In this cultural gap and cultural gap, there is bound to be a struggle for the right to speak between the daughter who represents the mainstream American culture and the mother who represents the traditional China culture. The inferior mother eastern culture is bound to be suppressed by the strong western culture, which makes the mother and daughter go further and further under the barrier of racial barriers and cultural collisions, and finally fall into a state of "aphasia". The power consciousness under the western cognitive structure, as well as the one-sided and biased attitude of western cultural traditions towards China, make the daughters' understanding of their mothers infiltrated into American culture naturally become a one-way activity that distorts different cultures. However, China's humble and backward economy in modern history made Chinese mothers in a "marginal position" in different cultures. They have no right to speak in society, and the only thing they can rely on is the spirit of not giving up and a long cultural tradition. They intervened and educated their daughter's life and growth in poor English, showing their fearless struggle and challenge to western hegemony. Coincidently with the oriental consciousness, in the antagonistic relationship between mother and daughter, the mother does not argue with her daughter, but adopts the traditional tolerance and concession method in China. In the silence caused by this ideological and cultural conflict, the mother is old and the daughter has experienced the collision and conflict between the two cultures. When the mother generation is suffering from the great trauma caused by "aphasia", the daughters are unconsciously repeating their mother's story.

Embarrassment of Daughter —— Confusion of Others

For American-born daughters, "China" is a distant story, a mother's ramble, and a China that they can't fully understand. They strive to adapt and assimilate the cultural environment of the surrounding mainstream society and strive to become real "Americans". However, their natural faces and the traditional cultural values of China, which they subtly learned from their mothers, make them always belong to the "other" in the eyes of Americans. Like Patricia? Lin pointed out: "American-born women in China are very sensitive to completely different values between China and the United States. Unlike their mothers, these women face demands from two opposing cultures. Although these are native to America,

Women in China are familiar with the details of China's lifestyle, but often feel helpless because they have to choose between "Chinese style" and "American style". In contrast, their mothers who were born in China rarely feel frustrated because they are entangled in such complicated issues as whether they are from China or the United States or whether they were born as women. "④

Wei Li always speaks fluent English, and her capable style and ability have enabled her to achieve something in her career. She is a successful "American" in all aspects, but only in terms of feelings, she can't pass the mother-in fact, she can't pass her own heart. Although years of estrangement have left little room for communication between mother and daughter, children brought up in China are born with an unknown fear of their parents. In her first marriage, Willie married a man from China in order to get his mother's love. This time, she wants to bravely find her own happy life, but the image of her mother is like a mountain in her heart. On the night of taking her boyfriend home for dinner, Wei Li has been observing her mother's expression. Her mother smiled and she was relieved. If her mother is unhappy, she doesn't even dare to mention marriage. Between the external American chic feelings and the internal China filial piety, Wei Li has always been in a dilemma. Li Na has an independent job. In her life, all expenses of her and her husband are settled by "AA system". She always thinks that this can show her independent personality and get her husband's respect. However, "economic freedom is not a puppet?" And a puppet. It is nothing more than that people can lead fewer things and increase the number of people who can lead. ⑤ Li Na has unconsciously lost her emotional dignity while becoming an economically independent new woman. On the contrary, everything between husband and wife is dominated by money interests, which makes her depressed but doesn't know where the crux lies. Rose's elegant appearance and noble personality made her win the favor of the publishing tycoon's son, but the man's mother tried to ask Ross to leave because her skin color and status were likely to affect her son's career development. In western culture, mainstream ideology has repeatedly distinguished itself from subordinate others. ""In order to maintain a nation's superior position, we must first label other things-others-as inferior. "6 American scholar Amy? When talking about the cultural identity of Chinese Americans, Lin once said, "Both new immigrants and China people born in the United States find themselves caught between two worlds. Their facial features announce the fact that their race is Asian, but they are American by education, choice or birth. "But even in terms of nationality and culture, what about" Americans "? In the orthodox western mainstream cultural context, skin color determines that they will always be the "other" on the edge of society. The secular vision also influenced Ross's psychology to some extent. Although she married her sweetheart, she regarded herself as an ornament around her husband, losing her personality and freedom of love, and finally losing her husband's respect and love, becoming a perceptual "other".

If the "aphasia" between mother and daughter is more due to the difference and collision between the two cultures, then the embarrassment and confusion of the daughter in the face of the powerful western cultural offensive reflects the rejection of the "other" by the mainstream culture. We can see that in the film, although the daughters have not received the formal traditional education in China, the traditional morality, values, and even the whole China culture seem distant and alienated. However, due to their mother's words and deeds, these traditions are still subtly influencing their thoughts. This dual culture infiltration and dual culture consciousness make their subconscious China cultural consciousness play a role when they can't solve problems in the American way, and their dual identity will inevitably make them seek reconciliation between the two cultures.

The intersection of heterogeneous cultures

Cultural identity is not an inherent feature of a particular culture or nation. On the contrary, it has the characteristics of structuralism and is a series of interrelated characteristics. Homi? Baba believes that "cultural identity is by no means a priori or a fait accompli. It can only be an elusive process close to the overall image. " Today, Hall also said, "The theme has acquired different identities in different periods, and the unity of self is no longer the center. We contain contradictory identities, and the power points in all directions, so identity is always a changing process. " In The Joy Luck Club, with the passage of time, each mother and daughter finally ended in reconciliation, which to some extent symbolizes the blending of two different cultures between China and the United States.

Shortly before his mother's death, Jun finally understood her mother's good intentions for herself in the past twenty years. Just like "how can a daughter not know her mother", there will be no mother in the world who does not know her daughter. China's traditional way of education, promoting first and then restraining, superficially portrayed Su Zaijun as an indifferent mother who was extremely disappointed with her daughter, but Su never gave up her seemingly mediocre daughter. Because only she knows her daughter's purity and kindness, which is unmatched by any superficial ability. At that time, you finally understood all the expectations of your mother, just living well. When she sat on the mother's head at the mahjong table, we seemed to see that her daughter/the West had begun to accept her mother/the East seriously. At the end of the film, when Jun returned to China to hug his twin sister, both sides shouted "Mom", a word that is * * * in all languages, which is simple and meaningful.

One of the meeting points of eastern and western cultures. Lindo is also a stubborn Chinese mother who doesn't know how to express her feelings too much. Influenced by the "chess game" as a child, Wei Li has always believed that her mother's silence represents her silent resistance for more than twenty years. So she married a China man to please her, but when she divorced, her mother's disappointed expression made Wei Li afraid to let her mother know that she had had a foreign boyfriend for a long time. However, in Lindo's heart, although she has a lot of dissatisfaction with Willie's foreign boyfriend-mainly because she doesn't understand China culture and etiquette, after all, her daughter's happiness is her mother's greatest happiness. Lindo's tolerance and acceptance of Willie's marriage finally showed her acceptance of American culture and respect for the differences between the two cultures to a certain extent. In the so-called equal marriage in which Li Na hopes that love will not be over-dependent, it is her mother's words that awaken her deep desire for true feelings, and "respect and gentleness" is what she really wants. The equality and freedom of American individualism are not feasible everywhere. Similarly, Ross, who lost herself in love and marriage, was deeply shocked by her mother's story. The self-improvement blood of China people flowing in her body made her completely awake. She is not the "other" outside the society and family, but a complete individual. And her self-esteem and self-improvement finally regained her husband's love and respect.

Said once said: "All cultures have me in you and you in me. No culture is isolated and pure. All cultures are hybrid and mixed. " Attending the mother and daughter generations, past and present, East and West, are inherently interrelated and inseparable. After years of running-in, the final recognition between mother and daughter is actually the recognition of Chinese and western cultures. However, this recognition is not a complete acceptance of each other's cultural types by either side, but a reconstructed third culture that belongs only to the Chinese community. In the mother who sticks to the traditional culture, we can read the process of mutual infiltration after the conflict between Chinese and western cultures; Daughters are endowed with the continuation of their mothers' memories and dreams, and they also inherit some traditional cultural values of China. Sooner or later, the blood of China people in their bodies will boil because they find a sense of belonging, and the China culture in their bones will hurt their nerves sooner or later. label

If the mother in The Joy Luck Club represents the traditional China culture and the daughter represents the modern American civilization, then the author attaches equal importance to the two aspects of the phenomenon of "China and the United States" that can be connected by hyphens. Amy Tan Can's concern can be said to have broken the long-standing pattern of opposition between "center" and "edge" and realized a deeper cultural identity behind the superficial cultural conflict. Like Picot? Earle pointed out in "The Literary Counterattack of the British Empire" published by Time magazine in the United States that "post-colonial writers are diverse and mixed. They don't stand in the position of a specific region, but are at the crossroads where it is convenient to reflect on the increasingly mobile global village. The value judgment of reflection is also diverse, so it has a certain degree of uncertainty. They span double or even multiple language and cultural traditions. They are writing a new novel to adapt to the new world. " ○ 1 1

The United States is such a multicultural society dominated by white culture. How China immigrants inherit the excellent tradition of China culture and absorb the essence of American culture, so as to construct their own cultural identity, has always been a concern of many China writers. Amy Tan is undoubtedly such a person with transnational and multicultural insight. Whether it is a novel or a movie, The Joy Luck Club "provides a network for readers and audiences through the intersection of different cultures, an antagonistic space-time network composed of dialogues between different nationalities and cultures". ○ 12 The Joy Luck Club shows not only the younger generation's pursuit of rootless memories, but also the confusion and struggle of China people in the dilemma of cultural identity. Instead, through the expectation of the integration of the two cultures, it expresses the will of China people not to abandon and hide China's cultural identity, not to cater to the mainstream culture in order to squeeze into the mainstream American society, and not to resist the mainstream white culture in order to stick to Central China culture. The whole film conveys a message, advocating diluting the definition of cultural identity and eliminating cultural opposition, so as to realize the integration and peace of multi-ethnic cultures around the world.