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The Representation of Trauma in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club (1989)

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Studies in World Literature

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The main aim of this present paper is to analyze and investigate Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club in the light of the psychological approach. The selected novel is regarded as an interlocking collection of traumatic narratives. It deals with how the first-generation Chinese immigrants suffered from the Sino-Japanese war. This paper employs the psychological approach in order to delve into the traumatic impact of the Seno-Chinese War on the first-generation Chinese immigrants in the United States of America. It also draws upon such psychological concepts as repression and the relation between memory and trauma, to name a few. The novel revolves around a number of Chinese-American mothers who narrate their traumatic experiences to their daughters, and warn them of falling victim to depression. In creating such a novel, Amy Tan mingles her real wistful memories into myths. The paper comes to the conclusion that trauma narrative is a writing technique that can help survivors of trauma in recovering from their psychological problems. Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, thus, does not propagate sadness and pessimism. Rather, it calls for the strength to survive traumatic experiences, regardless of how difficult they are. Thus, the present study aims at highlighting the aspects of psychological approach in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club as one of the remarkable Asian-American novels that portray the life of the Chinese immigrant families.

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10.21608/tjhss.2023.294735

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Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club, Psychology, Traumatic experience, The Sino, Japanese War, memory

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Samar

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Sayed

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المعهد العالى الدولى للغات و الترجمة

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samar_auc2006@hotmail.com

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4

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2

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40771

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2023-04-01

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2023-02-17

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2023-04-01

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17

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28

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2636-4239

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2636-4247

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Transcultural Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

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The Representation of Trauma in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club (1989)

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25 Dec 2024