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010 _a 2007938436
020 _a9780737738988 (hardcover)
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037 _bGreenhaven Pr, c/o Gale/Cengage Learning Po Box 9187, Farmington Hills, MI, USA, 48333-9187
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050 4 _aPS3570 .A48
_bZ94 2008
245 1 0 _aWomen's issues in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club /
_cGary Wiener, book editor.
260 _aDetroit :
_bGreenhaven Press,
_cc2008.
300 _a191 p. :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm.
490 0 _aSocial issues in literature
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 184-187) and index.
505 0 _aThe life of Amy Tan / Laurie Champion -- Tan turns autobiography into powerful fiction / Amy Ling -- The joy luck club is not strictly autobiographical / Amy Tan -- Tan's young women must rediscover their Chinese identity / Walter Shear -- June's symbolic journey to discover her ethnic identity / Zenobia Mistri -- Damaged by their mothers' high expectations / Wendy Ho -- Storytelling reconciles mothers and daughters / Gloria Shen -- The maternal line of descent dominates The joy luck club / Helena Grice -- Mother / daughter relationships in the post women's liberation era / Bonnie Braendlin -- Female empowerment in The joy luck club / Patricia P. Chu -- Tan's beginning rejects stereotypes about immigrant women / Catherine Romagnolo -- Empowerment through woman-to-woman bonding / Leslie Bow -- Asian American gender stereotypes in The joy luck club / Yuan Shu -- Tan portrays strong Asian women / Jean Lau Chin -- Mothers are society's scapegoats / Paula Caplan -- Asian American women must overcome limiting cultural stereotypes / Nikki A. Toyama -- Biculturalism leads to one woman's acceptance of bisexuality / Beverly Yuen Thompson -- Asian women are still not completely accepted in the United States / Iris Chang -- More women are working, but job equality remains elusive / International Labour Organization ILO) -- Feminism is not dead, just evolving / Eleanore Holmes Norton.
520 _aPresents essays that examine women's issues in "The Joy Luck Club," discussing such topics as gender and ethnic identity, female empowerment, cultural conflict, and stereotypes about immigrant women.
600 1 0 _aTan, Amy.
_tJoy Luck Club.
650 0 _aMothers and daughters in literature.
650 0 _aChinese Americans in literature.
700 1 _aWiener, Gary.
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