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This paper aims to analyze the traumas and healing processes of the Chinese American women portrayed in Chinese American writer Amy Tan’s debut work, The Joy Luck Club. In this work, Amy Tan not only exquisitely and vividly delineates miserable sufferings of Chinese American women in old China which result in immigration, but also depicts the hardships and distress that they experience in the process of their endeavors to adapt to and assimilate into American society. The main characters, four mothers and four daughters, reveal many kinds of their own traumas which have been caused by various reasons for a long time, but are healed by trauma narrative talk-story and reconciliation of the mother-daughter relationships in the end. Though many scholars hold skeptical opinions about completely healing from trauma, Tan maintains her positive attitude towards healing from trauma through this novel, providing insightful ideas about the prevalent trauma and its healing portrayed in Chinese American literature. Therefore, this paper will focus on analyzing Amy Tan’s delineation and thought about trauma and its healing, and on how they are related to her personal and familial traumatic experiences.
