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Women Becoming: a Feminist Critical Analysis of Mother-Daughter Relationships in Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club" and "The Kitchen God's Wife"

This analysis of Tan's first two novels reveals that her female characters suffer from the strains critics like Amy Ling say result from the double paradox of filling the roles of mother or daughter as minority women in a white, male society. Recognizing this double paradox offers Tan's characters, and her readers, the opportunity to resolve the conflicts between mothers and daughters in The Joy Luck Club. Using the theories of psychologist Kathie Carlson helps readers understand how the protagonist of The Kitchen God's Wife resolves similar conflicts with her daughter and her own mother by seeking support from a mythic mother-figure, a Goddess of her own making.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc500230
Date12 1900
CreatorsCurton, Carman C.
ContributorsChadwick-Joshua, Jocelyn, Rodman, Barbara Ann, Oelschlaeger, Max
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formativ, 61 leaves, Text
RightsPublic, Curton, Carman C., Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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