The Namesake and Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club



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Masaryk University

Faculty of Arts

Department of English
and American Studies

English Language and Literature

Lucia Tupá

Re-orientalism as a Writing Strategy: Generational Gaps or Cultural Differences in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake and Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club

Bachelor’s Diploma Thesis

Supervisor: Mgr. Martina Horákova, Ph.D.

2015

I declare that I have worked on this thesis independently,
using only the primary and secondary sources listed in the bibliography.

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Acknowledgement

I would like to thank my supervisor, Mgr. Martina Horáková, Ph.D. for her valuable advice, comments and kind guidance throughout the writing of this thesis.

Table of content




Introduction 5

1 Asian Americans and Their Place in American Society 7

2 Immigrant Literature as a Genre 10

3 Themes of Jhumpa Lahiri and Amy Tan 13

4 Diasporic Writers as Orientalists 17

5. Re-orientalism of Lahiri and Tan 21

5. 1 Food and Clothes as Ethnic Markers 21

5. 2 Language and Its Role 24

5. 3 Authenticity 27

6 The Second Generation Immigrants 31

6. 1 Teaching “Foreign” Culture 34

6. 2 Understanding Their Children 39

6. 3 Understanding Their Parents’ Culture 42

Conclusion 47

Sources 49

Summary 55

Résumé 57




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