Family Narratives in Eat a Bowl of Tea and The Wedding Banquet Lisa Lowe once criticized the use of generational conflict in Asian American literature, as it would disguise the problems of ethnic minority groups in mere familial terms (26). This is what seems apparent in the two movies, Eat a Bowl of Tea and The Wedding Banquet, for the protagonists in both are forced into marriage by their parents and the conflicts arise accordingly. However, as the paper will show, the movies avoid this “family narrative” by respectively contextualizing the generational gap and putting the story in a transnational perspective. Eat a Bowl of Tea does not fall victim to the “master narratives,” which, as suggested by Lowe, reduces “ethnic cultural
