Mother-Daughter Relationship and Identity in Disappearing Moon Cafe

• Main Authors: Jui-mei Ho, 何瑞美
• Other Authors: Cheung Kai Chong
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/rsn8z3

碩士 === 世新大學 === 英語學研究所(含碩專班) === 96 === Disappearing Moon Café is a masterpiece by an Asian-Canadian writer SKY Lee. In this novel, Lee tries to convey the dark-side of the mothering under the traditional Chinese Confucian society. The patriarchy influences the four generations of the Wong family and it also affects the normal development among mothers and daughters. Keeping silence seems the simplest way to cover the scandal and to save faces but it is a trigger off the incest crises among daughters. The main purpose of this thesis is to explore the real effect for those twisted minds of the mother-daughter-relationship in the immigrated family. Chapter 1 starts from the traditional Chinese mother’s story and the process of her mind twisted. Chapter 2 identifies the awakening mind to struggle to break the limitation of the patriarchy. Chapter 3 compares with the two types of mothering which Lee has concreted the true mother’s love. Chapter 4 searches for the identity and self-worth to end a virtuous cycle in the mother-daughter-relationship in Disappearing Moon Cafe.