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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The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan

Memory and the Ethnic Self: Reading Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club - Ben Xu
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Critical Analysis of Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club - Nasrullah Mambrol
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Constructing the Other: A Critical Reading of The Joy Luck Club - Jing Yin
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Come All Ye Asian American Writers of the Real and the Fake - Frank Chin
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Wisdom (un)heeded : Chinese mothers and American daughters - Rocio Davis
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Amy Tan Reflects on 30 Years Since The Joy Luck Club | Literary Hub
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Amy Tan: Her Mother's Daughter | CBS News
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The Joy Luck Club Reading Guide | Penguin Random House
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Six decades ago, 'Flower Drum Song' featured Hollywood's first Asian-American cast | NBC
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Wayne Wang called Oliver Stone's films evil; Stone called Wang's boring. | The Independent
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Unaccepted Images | The Harvard Crimson
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“The Joy Luck Club” Is The Movie You Needed, And It Almost Never Happened | BuzzFeed News
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Reliving the Year of the Dragon | HuffPost
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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