| dc.description.abstract | Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club is an exploration of different identities that
are experienced by migration families in the United States. It happens to the
mothers and daughters’ life as main characters. Mothers still preserve their culture
although they have lived in a new country. It can be concluded that the mothers do
not fully accept American custom. While their daughters as Asian-American have
been influenced by American culture. Even, for them, their mothers’ culture has
been ancient. Based on the description above, I am interested to analyse hybrid
identity by using Bhabha’s theory about hybridity.
This thesis is a qualitative research. This research aims to describe the
process of hybridity in
The Joy Luck Club as a postcolonial issue. Mothers’
experience as new comers in the United States and conflict experienced by
daughters with their mothers lead to the first analysis through Bhabha’s concept
about unhomeliness and then the way mothers and daughters use to solve their
conflict because of difference of perspective leads to the next analysis through
Bhabha’s concept about mimicry to answer the first question. The next step of
analysis is reading hybridity in
The Joy Luck Club especially the mimicry process
that leads it to the hybridity.
This research concludes that hibridity finally is able to bridge the different
identities between mothers and daughters. The consequence of hybridity is that
there is no authentic identity. By depicting these characters represented by the
mothers and the daughters, this novel indirectly, implies the impossibility to
identify an authentic identity. Moreover, this novel shows that hybrid persons are
able to create their own identity. It is partial Chinese and partial American. | en_US |
