"The Kitchen God's Wife"

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"The purpose of this research is to examine The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan, comparing the mother's and daughter's experiences and how those experiences mold their outlook, from a cultural and historical perspective. The plan of the research will be to set forth the narrative context in which the experiences of mother and daughter unfold in the novel, and then to discuss the cultural and historical elements that inform Tan's strategy of characterization.

To understand the cultural and historical features that control the action of The Kitchen God's Wife, it is important to realize the importance of the setting of the novel as a whole. Contemporary Northern California, chiefly San Francisco, provides the environment in which the story within a story can be told about the history of an extended Chinese-American family. The..."

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