Talk:The Joy Luck Club
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[edit] Inaccuracies and Inauthenticy
There are also quite a few inaccuracies in general in The Joy Luck Club, mainly having to do with the authors attempt to establish verisimilitude. One notable example is in a passage where one of the mother characters mis-hears the word "fucking" as "Fukien," which is a joke that would only work if the character spoke a dialect other that what she was purported to speak -- not to mention the fact that the two terms sound so different as to stretch credulity beyond acceptable limits. This and other problematic passages have raised questions with the authenticity of the book from a number of critics over the years, but being relatively new to Wikipedia, I'm not sure how controversies are usually handled, so I'll defer on the matter for now. Sangrito 23:05, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Depictions of Gender
can a section be added on the controversy surrounding the novel? e.g. the depiction of asian males. Theconroy 07:19, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
- It should be.
- The problem is that there's an anti-Asian stereotype of evil or uncaring Asian men, but there's also a feminist stereotype of evil or uncaring men (of all races). Many of the sources that normally complain about racial stereotypes won't complain about this one because they buy into the feminist stereotype.
- So there aren't a lot of printed references about the controversy. Ken Arromdee 17:44, 21 September 2006 (UTC)