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zen_monk Talkin about "The Joy Luck Club" recently reminded me of when I first watched/read the book and movie. I remembered feeling lke this was both relatble and also really not.
And the abject fear that sympathizing and relating to these 30-something year old Chinese-American ladies mean that they are somehow who I will grow up to be,
But I also understand it to be a generational thing, these authors and their works, where it would appeal to some generation of people and alienate the next one, particularly when the next one is another wave of immigration from people who lived through different lives and come here for different goals, and bringing with them new problems that seem familiar but has new contexts.
Still, it's hard to see that there's some kind of established standard for when authors who do diaspora literature, talking about things like trying to overcome self-loathing for their parents' culture and for their own othered status among their peers and so forth, and still see it repeat itself again and again as though that's what solely defines their literature.
A whole bunch of coded language and self-abasement.
And the abject fear that sympathizing and relating to these 30-something year old Chinese-American ladies mean that they are somehow who I will grow up to be,
But I also understand it to be a generational thing, these authors and their works, where it would appeal to some generation of people and alienate the next one, particularly when the next one is another wave of immigration from people who lived through different lives and come here for different goals, and bringing with them new problems that seem familiar but has new contexts.
Still, it's hard to see that there's some kind of established standard for when authors who do diaspora literature, talking about things like trying to overcome self-loathing for their parents' culture and for their own othered status among their peers and so forth, and still see it repeat itself again and again as though that's what solely defines their literature.
A whole bunch of coded language and self-abasement.
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