INTRODUCTION
The Joy Luck Club retold the lives of four women who came from China and their four Americanized daughters. The protagonist, Jing Mei Woo (June) took over her mother's place at the meetings of a social group called the Joy Luck Club. As its members play mah jong and feast on Chinese delicacies, friends of Jing Mei's mother spin stories about the past and lament the barriers that exist between their daughter and themselves. In this paper, I will discuss briefly on cultural studies and the Chinese Immigrant Experience and Individual Identity that is very evident in this novel.
CONCEPTUAL THEORY
According to Rivkin and Ryan (1998), the word culture' acquired a new meaning in the 1960s and 1970s. Prior to that time, culture' was associated with art, literature, and classical music. To have culture' was to possess a certain taste for particular kinds of artistic endeavor. Anthropologists have always used the word culture' in much broader sense to mean forms of......
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