Critical Insights: The Joy Luck Club

Publisher Salem Press

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Publisher

Salem Press

Volume

Copyright

2009

ISBN13

9781587656279

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Format

eBook

Grade Level

9th Grade - College Senior

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TBD

Related Series

Women's History Collection on Gale eBooks for Middle and High School Students
Overview

This volume features in-depth critical discussions of Amy Tan's novel.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
About This Volume.
The Book and Author.
1: On The Joy Luck Club.
2: Biography of Amy Tan.
3: The Paris Review Perspective.
Critical Contexts.
4: Amy Tan: A Look at the Critical Reception.
5: The Joy Luck Club: Cultural and Historical Contexts.
6: The Structure of The Joy Luck Club: Themes and Variations.
7: The Interplay of Unity and Diversity in The Joy Luck Club and The Hours.
Critical Readings.
8: Amy Tan: An Interview.
9: Memory and the Ethnic Self: Reading Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club.
10: “Only Two Kinds of Daughters”: Inter-Monologue Dialogicity in The Joy Luck Club.
11: Mothers and Daughters.
12: Voice, Mind, Self: Mother-Daughter Relationships in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God's Wife.
13: Feng Shui, Astrology, and the Five Elements: Traditional Chinese Belief in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club.
14: “That Was China, That Was Their Fate”: Ethnicity and Agency in The Joy Luck Club.
15: Narrative Beginnings in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club: A Feminist Study.
16: The Joy Luck Club After Twenty Years: An Interview with Amy Tan.
Resources.
17: Chronology of Amy Tan's Life.
18: Works by Amy Tan.
19: Bibliography.
Critical Insights.
About the Editor.
About The Paris Review.
Contributors.
Acknowledgments.
Index.
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