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    Review of Amy Tan's Novel The Joy Luck Club

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    The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan is reviewed in terms of its feminist implications in five pages. There are no other sources listed.

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    Amy Tans novel "The Joy Luck Club" is outwardly the story of friendship, trials, and tribulations. The story serves a much greater  function than simple entertainment, however. It also provides an opportune window into a particular time in history, a time in which the feminist movement was just beginning to gain  momentum and a time in which the concept of cultural diversity and its impact on even the most basic aspects of life was beginning to be better understood. Amy  Tans "The Joy Luck Club" can, in fact, be used to specifically illustrate the sociological construct of feminist theory. Tans novel is an  account of eight women as their lives begin in 1949. It quickly becomes apparent, however, that the present lives of these women are integrally tied to what has occurred  in the past. Four of these women were born in China but after experiencing many of the traumas of the raging war in China, manage to find their way  to San Francisco. The remaining four women were also of Chinese descent but had been born in the United States. The link between the two groups was that  of mother and daughter, four descended from four. Despite the mother daughter bond which exists between the four pairs of women  depicted in "The Joy Luck Club", there are tremendous cultural disparities. While the original four have been brought up in traditional Chinese culture, their daughters have experienced an intwinement  of Chinese and American culture. The contrast which results emphasizes many aspects of the concepts of feminism and, more specifically, the feminist theory in sociology. 

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