The Joy Luck Club | Literary Precedents
Tan credits Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine (1984), a set of interwoven tales about Indian life, as a formative influence on her writing. The Joy Luck Club also is inevitably and frequently compared with its predecessors, Maxine Hong Kingston's three varied books: The Woman Warrior (1976), China Men (1980), and Tripmaster Monkey (1989). Tan's book is less determinedly historical than China Men, less political than Tripmaster Monkey; it can be most productively compared with The Woman Warrior in its transformed amalgam of family...
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