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1、美籍华裔女作家伍绮诗，历时六年写就的处女作无声告白讲述了 20世纪70年代美国俄亥俄小镇一个华裔跨族婚姻家庭的故事。华裔父亲詹姆斯李和白人母亲玛丽琳将自己未竟的梦想全部寄托在了大女儿莉迪亚身上，父亲希望莉迪亚能够成为学校里善于交际的晚会中心，而母亲则希望莉迪亚能成为医生。然而莉迪亚的尸体在湖中被发现打破了李家脆弱的平衡，父亲内疚不已，母亲一心要找到真凶，哥哥内斯则认定隔壁的坏小子杰克脱不了干系，只有最被忽视的小女儿汉娜观察到了事情的真相。故事中的人物都有各自的创伤，该小说是一部典型的创伤小说。因此，本文借助创伤心理学和文化创伤理论，分析这种家庭悲剧背后的原因，如何处理创伤以及如何治愈创伤。关键

2、词：无声告白；创伤；人物；华裔男性；母女关系I齐齐哈尔大学毕业设计（论文）AbstractCeleste Ngrs six-year debut novel, Everything I Never Told You, tells the story of aChinese-American interracial marriage family in a small Ohio town in the 1970s. ChineseAmerican father James lee and white mother Marilyn put all their unfinished dream on

3、 theireldest daughter Lydia. Her father hopes Lydia can become the center of the sociable eveningparty in school, while mother hopes Lydia can become a doctor However, Lydias body wasfound in the lake Jhis thing broke the balance of the lee familys fragile. James was guilty；Marilyn was determined to

4、 find the culprit； Nath thought that the bad boy next door namedjack can be involved in; only the most overlooked daughter Hanna observed the truth of thematter.This work is a typical trauma novel”and with the help of psychological and culturaltrauma in trauma theory, we can analyze the causes behin

5、d this family tragedy, then analyzehow to deal with trauma and how to heal it.Key words: Everything I never told you; Trauma;Character;Chinese-AmericanMan;Mother-Daughter Relationship.iiContents摘要iAbstractIIContents11 Theory of Trauma21.1 Original of Trauma21.2 Research of Trauma in Home and Abroad3

6、2 Reasons of Trauma52.1 Racial Discrimination in America52.2 Gender Discrimination in America62.3 Sinking into Parents Love83 Symptoms of Trauma103.1 Self-Contemptuous JamesTrying to Be Same103.2 Contradictory MarilynTrying to Be Different113.3 Tragic LydiaLosing Herself under Pressure124 Recovery o

7、f Trauma144.1 Recovery through Culture Confidence144.2 Recovery through Family Communication154.3 Recovery through Committing Suicide16Conclusion18References19Acknowledgments21IntroductionCeleste , the 21st century Chinese female writer, is known as Hthe next Amy Tan”. Assoon as her debut, Everythin

8、g I Never Told You, was published, she won the first place inAmazons 2014 book of the year. This story tells what happened in an cross-racial familywhich was composed by an ordinary Chinese-American and a white American. The fivefamily members in the story are: father James. Li is a Chinese who was

9、a teacher in a town,because non-Americans have not been able to stay at Harvard to teach. Her mother, Marilyn,was white in the United States and wanted to be a doctor, but she had to give up her dreambecause of marriage and family. The eldest daughter Lydia was much loved by her parentsbut under pre

10、ssure. His eldest son Nath and her younger daughter Hanna were often ignoredby their parents and had no sense of being. In fact,the happy family was in danger, and Lydiajumped into the lake in the end.There are lots of reasons should people ponder behind thestory.The Los Angeles Times commented: n E

11、verything I Never Told You is a fascinating pieceof work that exposes the secrets of American families to the sun and ends up tearing it topieces/1 The Huffington Post commented on the book: We cant wait to understand the storybehind Lydias death. The truth that the novel finally reveals is enlighte

12、ning. M Oprah alsocommented:Celeste tells a serious topic about gender and race with a compelling andadmirable story. Because this work is not published for a long time, there is little research onthis work in China. Scholars mainly study this work from the perspectives of familyeducation, ethnic is

13、sues, cultural conflicts, womens life value and so on. There are also manynew ideas, such as Hofsteads theory of cultural dimensions, Ethefs summon structuren inthe theory of reception aesthetics, and the theory of marginal people and so on. So far,scholars have neglected the perspective of trauma i

14、n the study of nsilent confession”，and thiswork is a typical trauma novel. Therefore, with the help of psychological and cultural traumain trauma theory, we can better analyze the causes behind this family tragedy, and then todiscuss how to deal with trauma and how to heal it.1 Theory of TraumaIn re

15、cent years, scholars have studied trauma from multiple perspectives. HTraumatheoryn is widely used in psychology and psychoanalysis,and then trauma is integrated intothe war, social unrest and other fields of research .At present, the research on the theory oftrauma in the academic circle involves the content of history, philosophy, psychology,literature and other disciplines. The research in the western academic circle is relatively early,while the research in the domestic academic circle on the theory of trauma is often carried outby combing and analyzing the relevant research in th