American Literature / Unit 18 AML 1714 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Amy Tan and *The Joy Luck Club*
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The idea
The witness describes Tan's luminous novels of Chinese life transposed to America after the Second World War, naming The Joy Luck Club of nineteen eighty-nine and The Kitchen God's Wife of nineteen ninety-one. David Henry Hwang made the same mark in drama with M. Butterfly.
In practice
Mothers in one country, daughters in another.
Where people slip
Hwang's work belongs to the stage, not the novel.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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