| ABSTRACT | 第1-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-9页 |
| CONTENTS | 第9-11页 |
| I. INTRODUCTION | 第11-24页 |
| A. A Brief Introduction to Amy Tan and The Joy Luck Club | 第11-15页 |
| B. A Brief Introduction to Postcolonial Feminist Criticism | 第15-19页 |
| C. A Brief Introduction to Historical and Social Background in both China and America | 第19-22页 |
| D. Thesis Statement | 第22-24页 |
| II. THE TRAUMA OF CHINESE AMERICAN WOMEN AS THE OTHER | 第24-47页 |
| A. Sexual and Cultural Trauma Caused by Patriarchy | 第25-33页 |
| 1. The Four Mothers ’ Suffering in China | 第26-28页 |
| 2. Silent and Obedient Chinese Mothers as Gender Other | 第28-33页 |
| B. Racial Trauma Caused by Racism | 第33-42页 |
| 1. The Four Mothers and Daughters’ Suffering in America | 第33-35页 |
| 2. The Mother and Daughters as Ethnic Other | 第35-42页 |
| C. The Aphasia of Chinese American Women as the Other | 第42-47页 |
| 1. The Aphasia of Mothers as the Other | 第43-45页 |
| 2. The Aphasia of Daughters as the Other | 第45-47页 |
| Ⅲ. CHINESE AMERICAN WOMEN’S STRUGGLING TO WORK THROUGH TRAUMA | 第47-58页 |
| A. Breaking Silence | 第47-52页 |
| 1. Story-telling Strategy | 第48-49页 |
| 2. The Breaking of the Barrier between the Mothers and Daughters | 第49-52页 |
| B. Reconstruction of Identity | 第52-58页 |
| 1. Searching for Chinese American Characteristics | 第53-55页 |
| 2. Reconstruction of Chinese American women’s Unique Cultural Identity | 第55-58页 |
| Ⅳ. CONCLUSION | 第58-61页 |
| WORKS CITED | 第61-63页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第63页 |
