The Joy Luck Club: The Roots of Asian Representation

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With the help of some friends, I break down The Joy Luck Club and its influence on the long but largely underappreciated legacy of Asian American stories in literature, film, and television.

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Sources:
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan

Memory and the Ethnic Self: Reading Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club - Ben Xu
https://www.jstor.org/stable/467784

Critical Analysis of Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club - Nasrullah Mambrol
https://literariness.org/2020/10/04/critical-analysis-of-amy-tans-the-joy-luck-club/

Constructing the Other: A Critical Reading of The Joy Luck Club - Jing Yin
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2005-12127-001

Come All Ye Asian American Writers of the Real and the Fake - Frank Chin
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9780470996928.ch9

Wisdom (un)heeded : Chinese mothers and American daughters - Rocio Davis
https://publicaciones.unirioja.es/ojs/index.php/cif/article/view/2335/2204

Amy Tan Reflects on 30 Years Since The Joy Luck Club | Literary Hub
https://lithub.com/amy-tan-reflects-on-30-years-since-the-joy-luck-club/

Amy Tan: Her Mother's Daughter | CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amy-tan-her-mothers-daughter/

The Joy Luck Club Reading Guide | Penguin Random House
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/300526/the-joy-luck-club-by-amy-tan/9780143129493/readers-guide/

Six decades ago, 'Flower Drum Song' featured Hollywood's first Asian-American cast | NBC
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/six-decades-ago-flower-drum-song-featured-hollywood-s-first-n899576

Wayne Wang called Oliver Stone's films evil; Stone called Wang's boring. | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/film-the-tears-of-living-dangerously-wayne-wang-called-oliver-stone-s-films-evil-stone-called-wang-s-boring-the-novelist-amy-tan-brought-them-together-by-sheila-johnston-1428383.html

Unaccepted Images | The Harvard Crimson
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1993/10/8/unaccepted-images-pbtbhe-joy-luck-club/

“The Joy Luck Club” Is The Movie You Needed, And It Almost Never Happened | BuzzFeed News
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/susancheng/why-hollywood-bet-on-athe-joy-luck-cluba

Reliving the Year of the Dragon | HuffPost
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/reliving-the-year-of-the-dragon_b_5949454ae4b0d097b29bc85d

Cultural Misreadings by American Reviewers | Maxine Hong Kingston
https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/978-1-349-04940-0_5?sharing_token=z_8KeHD8zfofBEHlhOQbxfe4RwlQNchNByi7wbcMAY5tIe1sE2WC45x2jXVzQs8FTn7unmLhj-JAf4zKptm-8y7qA31RU3nUoB7RryWIHyCjDEaUTromjn6ufVryMxo4RR_MIC9pRMYkHwSfypYWsmeIkiH6VJQKdRlqnp4HoiQ=

NickALive!: How Would Kids Cast Themselves? | Nickelodeon Shades of Us
http://www.nickalive.net/2021/06/how-would-kids-cast-themselves.html

The Untapped Political Power of Asian Americans | Third Way
https://www.thirdway.org/report/the-untapped-political-power-of-asian-americans#conclusion

0:00 Intro
4:24 The Road to Joy Luck
13:44 Generational & Cultural Divides
46:28 The Question of ‘Authenticity’
1:04:55 Mothers and Daughters
1:22:07 Feeling Seen & The Burden of Representation

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