The Joy Luck Club Annotated Bibliography

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Souris, Stephen. "`Only Two Kinds Of Daughters': Inter-Monologue Dialogicity In The Joy Luck Club." Melus 19.2 (1994): 99. Academic Search Complete. Web. 19 Oct. 2015. This article argues that The Joy Club invites analysis from critical perspectives that theorize and valorize fragmented, discontinuous texts and the possibilities of connection across segments. The author was saying that in “Two Kind”, mother from china and daughter American born that was causing problem in between them. Stephen was arguing that Amy dialog of mother and daughter are too long. It was long conversation between them. There is no point to put so much stuff in the story. Less word would make story better and centralize.
In my paper I will use argue of this article author that dialogs between mother and daughter is too many. The dialogs are not allowing all reader’s to follow story clearly. More concentrate on other thing instead mother and daughter conversation.
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"'Chinese And Dogs' In Amy Tan's 'The Hundred Secret Senses': Ethnicizing The Primitive A La New Age." Melus 26.1 (2001): 29. Academic Search Complete. Web. 19 Oct. 2015
Author Sheng-mei argues in this article on Amy Tan’s version of primitivism views rationality. Amy Tan does not give many reasons in the story of happening something. She was always by pass reason to her physical feeling. Sheng-mei was saying that never come up with result until checking reason behind it. Author was telling Amy Tan a resist also because of word she using on Chinese without any reason. Amy tan write story how she want to write without carrying about someone.
I will use this article to explore the struggle with the reason that Amy Tan use. The reason is that you giving cannot be always

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