"The Joy Luck Club"

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This paper focuses on the mother-daughter narratives in "The Joy Luck Club". It focuses in particular on the mothers' side of the narratives. It shows how Tan successfully subverts stereotypes about Chinese and Asian women to reveal a fierce inner strength.

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"The Joy Luck Club is a rich lyrical novel that weaves 16 stories and seven viewpoints into a narrative tapestry. This review focuses on the effectiveness of Tan's multiple viewpoint narrative technique and on her subversions of the submissive Chinese woman stereotype.
One unusual feature of The Joy Luck Club is Tan's explicit inclusion of the mother's perspective. Even as the daughters tell their stories, the voices of the mothers shine through. For literary critic Marina Heung, Tan's depictions of matrilineage include her in the growing canon of writing that addresses the intersections of race, class and gender. This canon includes works by several important women of color, such as Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston (Heung)."

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