A Study on Order Reconstruction via Dialogue in The Joy Luck Club

While much research on The Joy Luck Club has been studied through grand lens, like feminism, or cultural factors, trauma, etc., little research has been conducted to highlight self-consciousness and conflicts that are reflected in their seemingly endless dialogues between the four mothers and their...

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Main Author: Wang, Hai-yan (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: David Publishing Company 2021
In: Cultural and religious studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 9, Issue: 10, Pages: 466-472
Further subjects:B Order
B Self-awareness
B Dialogue
B The Joy Luck Club
B Relations
B Right decisions
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Summary:While much research on The Joy Luck Club has been studied through grand lens, like feminism, or cultural factors, trauma, etc., little research has been conducted to highlight self-consciousness and conflicts that are reflected in their seemingly endless dialogues between the four mothers and their daughters throughout the novel. Using dialogue from Bakhtin’s polyphony theory, the present study investigates precisely how it works to awaken self-consciousness in all of them; how their understanding and connection are restored, and eventually how exactly right decisions are made for their daughters in marriage. The findings show that, after numerous dialogues between mothers and daughters, their self-awareness has become clearer, their relations are mended, the right decisions are made, and eventually the order in every aspect is reconstructed. The study calls for greater attention to the embodiment of dialogues in The Joy Luck Club, and how they work effectively and profoundly at every level, and at last how they fulfill the reconstruction of orders in certain aspects.
ISSN:2328-2177
Contains:Enthalten in: Cultural and religious studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.17265/2328-2177/2021.10.003