Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
By: edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Contributors: Bloom, Harold.
Series: Bloom's guides
Publisher: Chelsea House
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781604135749
Subjects: Tan, Amy; Chinese Americans in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ben Xu on the symbolism of the mah jong game; title: Gloria Shen on Amy Tan's atypical narrative structure; title: M. Marie Booth Foster on developing a voice, developing an identity; title: Steven P. Sondrup on the multiple uses of language in The joy luck club; title: Patricia L. Hamilton on the influence of feng shui in the novel; title: Wendy Ho on a Joy Luck Club father; title: Patricia P. Chu on balancing the novel's strengths and weaknesses; title: Peter X. Feng on taking The Joy Luck Club from novel to film; title: Mary Ellen Snodgrass on the function of storytelling in The joy luck club; title: Bella Adams on conflicting meanings in Jing-Mei's story; title: Magali Cornier Michael on an alternative view of the novel's conclusion; title: Jane Elliott on the struggle between time past and time future.