Resumen de Chinese women's reconciliation in America in The Joy Luck Club
In The Joy Luck Club (1989), Amy Tan redefines Chinese immigration by recollecting the stories of four Chinese born mothers who, always with their Chinese heritage at the background, desire to bring up their daughters in the dreamt American civilization. Through storytelling, mothers provide their daughters with the traces they need to be American citizens with the treasure of Chinese powerful tradition in their own lives. This combination between a real influential America the girls know and taste and a China that mothers have as something intrinsic to their own selves allows the final reconciliation in America among daughters, among mothers, and, between both generations.
By introducing and analyzing personal experiences in The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan manages to show readers what is beyond these women, the reality of the confrontation of two cultures, of two generations, that can finally be reconciled in the new and final destiny of the immigration process. Not only do concrete individuals come to terms with themselves and with the previous generation in this novel, but, fmally, America and China as independent countries are linked in a compact alliance. Chinese treasures of tradition and familiar unity can go with American individualism and modernism in order to create a new combination that marks and defines the sense of identity of a new community, the Chinese American world.
