![]() This thesis uses cultural criticism and reception theory to examine three things: the novel’s cultural and linguistic inaccuracies, the role of shame in forming the Chinese American identity, and the cumulative influences of popular reviews, educational guides, and public commentary on readers’ tendencies to attach representational value to the novel. Unfortunately, few scholars have considered detaching representational power from ethnic texts and alleviating the burden on ethnic writers to represent their communities. ![]() ![]() An Asian American bestseller and a required reading in many classrooms, The Joy Luck Club by Chinese American author Amy Tan has prompted substantial debate-some zealously laudatory of its rich narratives and cultural insights, some seethingly critical of its Orientalist motives, some neutrally analytical of its cultural symbols-over its representation of Chinese and Chinese Americans in the literary mainstream. ![]()
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