Query: the Joy Luck Club

title: Spatial Narrative in the Joy Luck Club
abstract: This article explores the relationship between spatial narrative and the identity construction of Chinese American daughters in the Joy Luck Club. Based on theories of Zoran and Lefebvre, it finds out that those daughters construct their identity by a process from refusing to accept Chinese culture in topological space, making efforts to be integrated into American society but failing in social space, to accepting Chinese cultures in textual space at last. This article hopes to provide a new perspective for interpreting the Joy Luck Club of identity construction of Chinese Americans.

title: The Representation of Amy Tan's Background in Her Novel The Joy Luck Club
abstract: Discourse stylistics focuses upon the largely implicit and highly ideological 'background' of the text. Mind style that is one of the traits of stylistics is going to be taken into account of doing the analysis since this research aims to find out about how the mind style of Amy Tan is shaped by her background in her way of writing and producing the novel The Joy Luck Club. The term 'mind style' (Leech and Short, 2007) is particularly appropriate where the choices made are consistent through a text or part of a text. This research is questioned whether or not Amy Tan's Chinese background have influenced the novelist's style as represented in her novel, The Joy Luck Club. This research describes the novel with a focus on the characters' mind style in a stylistic and narrative approach. This research aims to attain the influence from the backgrounds of the novelist and the way the background affect the novelist's style in producing literary work. The descriptions and explanations of scrutinizing the novel are hoped to provide examples of doing discourse stylistics to literary works. The specific use of Chinese words, the repetition use of pronouns, the presentation of Chinese superstitions have put so much contributions in shaping Amy Tan's style in her works. Through her literary works, the novelist is able to show her readers linguistic journey through her wordplay style.

title: CULTURAL PARADOX IN AMY TAN'S THE JOY LUCK CLUB
abstract: Cultural paradox or unevenness alludes to a process of having a dilemma in adapting an appropriate culture for a living. The dilemma happens in the psychological realm. Immigrants have a problem of holding on their mother culture. Psychologically, it is a complex activity for an immigrant's psyche, as the immigrants try to find their feet in the new nation. Loss of identity is one of the major complicatedness faced by the immigrants. The reason behind the loss of identity is that people leave their own land and become a part of the foreign culture, which is utterly a novelty to them. The novel, The Joy Luck Club explicates inter generational problems and the cultural paradox of the four immigrant families. Cultural paradox commences due to lack of communication within the family, especially with the immediate generation.

title: On Conflicts and Integration of American and Chinese Cultures in Joy Luck Club from Perspective of Intercultural Communication
abstract: The paper analyzes the conflicts and integration between mothers and daughters in Joy Luck Club with the application of Hofstede's Intercultural Communication Theory in order to explore methods to overcome cultural shocks.

title: Joy Luck Club A Destruction of Phallocentrism
abstract: The well known work Joy Luck Club tells stories of lives of more than 8 reprehensive women. Through the subtle description, Tan deconstructs the roles of males in the social development and demolish the Phallocentrism and encourage women to obtain equality and their own rights to live independently.

title: On Translator's Subjectivity in the Light of Steiner's Fourfold Translation Motion on the Perspective of "Aggression" A Case Study on Cheng Naishan's Chinese Version of The Joy Luck Club
abstract: Being the second stage of the fourfold translation motion, "aggression" indicates the translator's textual perception and comprehension. Steiner declared this motion as an unavoidable mark of attack. Lefevere also pointed out that translation functions in a given culture at a given time. The way they understand themselves and their culture is one of the factors that may influence the way in which they translate. The translator's intention and preference are involved in this stage. Many typical cases are employed to exemplify the "aggression" in translating.

title: The Eco discourse Analysis of The Joy Luck Club
abstract: This paper spotlights one of the most influential Chinese American novels, 'The Joy Luck Club' Broadly adhering to the principles and orientations of Eco discourse analysis and using Halliday's systemic functional grammar as a framework of analysis, this study uncovers ideologies pointing to an asymmetrical power structure between the mother and the daughter and discusses the underlying Chinese philosophy of mother, which helps daughter find her genuine identity. This paper concludes with revealing the true contradiction behind the conflict of mother daughter, i.e. the two distinct value systems, and expect people to think and act ecologically, promoting the development of eastern eco ideology.

title: Reading Multicultural Novels Melancholically: Racial Grief and Grievance in the Joy Luck Club, Beloved, and Anil's Ghost

title: Interpretation of the Mother Daughter Relationship in the Joy Luck Club from the Perspective of Transitivity System
abstract: The Joy Luck Club written by Amy Tan depicts the lifestyle of foreign citizens of Chinese origin. It consists of many stories in which children born in the United States but educated in a Chinese way are destined to have some conflicts with their Chinese born parents due to different environments they were born in. This thesis, based on functional grammar put forward by Halliday, endeavors to focus on the analysis of the mother daughter interaction in one of the four families Jing mei Woo's family from the perspective of transitivity system so as to shed light on the personalities of these characters. After carrying out the corresponding analysis, a conclusion can be made that the daughter is a person with her own mind and she pursues freedom and independence all her life, while her mother is a person attaching great importance to the obedience from her daughter.

title: Chinese American Women's Traumas and Healing in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club