The Joy Luck Club

by Amy Tan

The Joy Luck Club: Dialect 1 key example

Dialect
Explanation and Analysis—Psyche-atricks:

The Joy Luck Club’s dialect explores the liminal space between homeland and new frontier, past and present. As her stories move between early 20th-century China and 1980s America, Tan distills the cultural complexity within the English and Chinese languages by imitating the way her characters speak.