A Study Guide for Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club - The Gale Group.
Publication Year: 2015. Page count: 35.
A Study Guide for Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
A Teacher's Guide to The Joy Luck Club - Greg Slingerland.
Publication Year: 2014. Page count: 74.
A Teacher's Guide to The Joy Luck Club is a complete novel study for Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club. This teacher's guide is designed for high school students. This guide will push students beyond a cursory survey of the book and lead them into a deeper analysis of Amy Tan's novel. This book contains: - Chapter by chapter questions - Quizzes and Tests - Review ideas - Journal activities - Anticipatory sets - Discussion ideas and starters
Joy Luck Club - 101 Amazingly True Facts You Didn't Know - G Whiz.
Publication Year: 2013. Page count: Not available.
Did you know Tan was once featured in an episode of the Television show The Simpsons? Or, did you know while Tan was still a doctorate student at the University of California, Berkeley, her best friend and roommate was tragically murdered? What are the amazingly true facts behind Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan? Do you want to know the golden nuggets of facts readers love? If you've enjoyed the book, then this will be a must read delight for you! Collected for readers everywhere are 101 book facts about the book & author that are fun, down-to-earth, and amazingly true to keep you laughing and learning as you read through the book! Tips & Tricks to Enhance Reading Experience • Enter "G Whiz" after y...
The Joy Luck Club - Tan, Amy.
Publication Year: 2011. Page count: Not available.
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The Joy Luck Club (Study Guide) - BookCaps Study Guides Staff.
Publication Year: 2011. Page count: Not available.
The perfect companion to Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club," this study guide contains a chapter by chapter analysis of the book, a summary of the plot, and a guide to major characters and themes. BookCap Study Guides do not contain text from the actual book, and are not meant to be purchased as alternatives to reading the book. We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a student trying to cram for that big final, or someone just trying to understand a book more, BookCaps can help. We are a small, but growing company, and are adding titles every month.
The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan - Robert C. Evans.
Publication Year: 2010. Page count: 323.
Collects sixteen essays examining the work, covering such topics as artistic aspects of the text, its critical reception, and the use of repetitions and parallels in the work.
The Struggle for a Bicultural Self: Reconstructing Mothers and Daughters Through a Bicultural Lens in the Novels "The Joy Luck Club"; Dreaming in Cuban"; and "Brown Girl, Brownstones". - Dinah R. Claus.
Publication Year: 2010. Page count: 83.
The Struggle for a Bicultural Self: Reconstructing Mothers and Daughters Through a Bicultural Lens in the Novels The Joy Luck Club; Dreaming in Cuban; and Brown Girl, Brownstone explores the intricate relationships between first generation, bicultural daughters and their exiled mothers. Like most daughters, the first generation, bicultural daughters struggle with their self-identity, but their hyphenated existence further complicates this struggle. The mothers, exiled from their home countries due to cultural, political, economic, or racial reasons, are so wrapped up in the problems from their home country that they fail to recognize the crisis the bicultural existence causes for their daugh...
The Joy Luck Club - Unknown.
Publication Year: 2009. Page count: 59.
CONVICTS is a juicy slice of Lone Star gothic, wherein the fourteen-year-old Horace is discovered working as an assistant to a grizzled old cane plantation owner who oversees a labor force of black prisoners. The basis for a 1991 film starring Robert Duv You'd think a play consisting almost entirely of two-person conversations in the same restaurant booth would quickly become tedious. Yet in KNICKERBOCKER, playwright Jonathan Marc Sherman [manages] to make this potentially static setup alive with biting
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan - Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom.
Publication Year: 2009. Page count: 233.
-- Presents the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature. -- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism. -- Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index
Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club - Harold Bloom.
Publication Year: 2009. Page count: 145.
An overview of the novel features a biographical sketch of the author, a list of characters, a summary of the plot, and critical and analytical views of the work.
A Reader's Guide to Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club - Pamela Loos.
Publication Year: 2008. Page count: 112.
"An introduction to Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club for high school students, which includes relevant biographical background on the author, explanations of various literary devices and techniques, and literary criticism for the novice reader"--Provided by publisher.
CliffsNotes on Tan's The Joy Luck Club - Laurie Neu Rozakis.
Publication Year: 2007. Page count: 80.
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. Explore how generational and cultural differences can divide — and then unite — immigrant mothers and their American-born daughters as you study CliffsNotes on The Joy Luck Club. This novel describes the lives of four women, who fled China in the 1940s, and their contentious relationships with their four very Americanized daughters. Through the love of their mothers, each of these young women learns about her heritag...
Joy Luck Mothers & Coca-Cola Daughters: A Study in Intergenerational Trials and Triumphs Considering Acculturation and Values Adherence - Kristina M. Pecora Kelly.
Publication Year: 2007. Page count: 132.
Culture is one of many factors that contribute to the complexities of psychological processes and is obviously important to the understanding of culturally diverse populations. In an attempt to discover the meaning of culture within a specific ethnic group, Chinese immigrant mothers and their native-born daughters were asked to discuss their experiences as acculturating individuals, their relationships with each other, and how the process of living within both a traditional and new society has affected their traditions, their values, and their cultural selves. Analyses of questionnaire and interview data were completed from a phenomenological perspective, with emphasis on personal meaning of...
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan.
Publication Year: 2006. Page count: 288.
Encompassing two generations and a rich blend of Chinese and American history, the story of four struggling, strong women also reveals their daughter's memories and feelings.
Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club - Carla J. Beard.
Publication Year: 1996. Page count: 119.
MAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion. Written by literary experts who currently teach the subject, MAXnotes will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the work. MAXnotes are designed to stimulate independ ent thought about the literary work by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and questions. MAXnotes cover the essentials of what one should know about each work, including an overall summary, character lists, an explanation and discussion of the plot, the work`s historical context, illustrations to convey the mood of the work, and a biography of the author. Each chapter is individually summarized and ana...
Selected from the Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan.
Publication Year: 1992. Page count: 61.
Encompassing two generations and a rich blend of Chinese and American history, the story of four struggling, strong women also reveals their daughters' memories and feelings.
Infant Bonds of Joy - Roger Weingarten.
Publication Year: 1990. Page count: 87.
Freewheeling through the night, Weingarten's poems touch, collide with, and finally integrate death, desire, and the past. Boldly ricocheting through place and time, creating chronology by association and rapid scene and image changes, the poems of Infant Bonds of Joy break through the constraints of narrative to the impulse beneath. It is a remarkable collection, a powerful "battering-ram of understanding."
Hiker Joy - James Brendan Connolly.
Publication Year: 1920. Page count: 242.
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Travellers Joy - Unknown.
Publication Year: 1906. Page count: 319.
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The Land of Joy - Ralph Henry Barbour.
Publication Year: 1903. Page count: 416.
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The house of joy - Laurence Housman.
Publication Year: 1895. Page count: 181.
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