1995 Braendlin, Bonnie. Women Speak on the Literary Life . Interspersing personal reflection with critical vignettes, Braendlin deals with the dialogical nature of narrative and ideologies. Chinese American Women, Language, and Moving Subjectivity. Basing her discussion of subjectivity on non-fiction essays by Tan and Kingston, as well as previous scholarship on women writers of Chinese ancestry, Chen looks at the inherently political nature of language.
Language serves to both assimilate and marginalize ethnic Others.
This essay discusses the role of Western theater groups in the performance of intercultural drama. Based on problems that arose during the production of The Joy Luck Club in China, Conceison questions the role of intercultural drama, locating several areas of concern. These concerns include language and linguistic barriers, Western colonialistic ideals, balanced collaboration, and cultural education. Shen, Gloria . Anne Brown and Marjanne Gooze.