Story-telling and Story-tellers in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club
Story-telling and Story-tellers in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club
Author(s): Alexandra MitreaSubject(s): Novel, Other Language Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Universitatii LUCIAN BLAGA din Sibiu
Keywords: Story-telling; language, narrators; identity; immigrant; history; subjectivity;
Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on Amy Tan’s ingenious experiments with story-telling as well as the mother-daughter voices it foregrounds. It analyses the way in which the process of story-telling brings with it reconciliation and release of burdens of the past. It also highlights the manner in which, while constructing female versions of their immigrant experiences, the narrators help Tan articulate a postmodern preoccupation with the construction of history.
Journal: East-West Cultural Passage
- Issue Year: 15/2015
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 24-35
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English
- Content File-PDF
