Includes bibliographical references (p. 177 - 179) and index
Born of a stranger: mother-daughter relationships and storytelling in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club / Gloria ShenVoice, mind, self: mother-daughter relationships in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and The kitchen god's wife / M. Marie Booth Foster -- Hanyu at The Joy Luck Club / Steven P. Sondrup -- Discovering the ethnic name and the genealogical tie in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club / Zenobia Mistri -- The role of mah jong in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club / Ronald Emerick -- Feng shui, astrology, and the five elements: traditional Chinese belief in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club / Patricia L. Hamilton -- Moving forward to reach the past: the dialogics of time in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club / Marc Singer -- Mothers' "China narrative": recollection and translation in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and The kitchen god's wife / Yuan Yuan -- Identity-in-difference: re-generating debate about intergenerational relationships in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club / Bella Adams -- Choosing hope and remaking kinship: Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club / Magali Cornier Michael.
Gloria Shen: Born of a stranger: mother-daughter relationships and storytelling in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
M. Marie Booth Foster: Voice, mind, self: mother-daughter relationships in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and The kitchen god's wife
Steven P. Sondrup: Hanyu at The Joy Luck Club
Zenobia Mistri: Discovering the ethnic name and the genealogical tie in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
Ronald Emerick: The role of mah jong in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
Patricia L. Hamilton: Feng shui, astrology, and the five elements: traditional Chinese belief in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
Marc Singer: Moving forward to reach the past: the dialogics of time in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
Yuan Yuan: Mothers' "China narrative": recollection and translation in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and The kitchen god's wife
Bella Adams: Identity-in-difference: re-generating debate about intergenerational relationships in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
Magali Cornier Michael.: Choosing hope and remaking kinship: Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club