Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-209) and index.
Introduction / Harold Bloom -- The language of discretion / Amy Tan -- Theorizing ethnicity and subjectivity: Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster monkey and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club / Malini Johar Schueller -- Daughter-text/mother-text: matrilineage in Amy Tan's Joy Luck Club / Marina Heung -- Memory and the ethnic self: reading Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club / Ben Xu -- "Only two kinds of daughters": inter-monologue dialogicity in The Joy Luck Club / Stephen Souris -- "Sugar sisterhood": situating the Amy Tan phenomenon / Sau-Ling Cynthia Wong -- Born of a stranger: mother-daughter relationships and storytelling in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club / Gloria Shen -- Mother/daughter dialog(ics) in, around and about Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club / Bonnie Braendlin -- Swan-feather mothers and Coca-Cola daughters: teaching Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club / Wendy Ho -- Identity in community in ethnic short story cycles: Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, Louise Erdrich's Love medicine, Gloria Naylor's The women of Brewster Place / Rocío G. Davis -- Ethnic voices of Asian-American women with special reference to Amy Tan / Somdatta Mandal -- Multitudes and multicultures / Myra Jehlen.
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Presents essays analyzing the author's work by subject matter, theme and motif.