Amy Tan
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Amy Tan, in "Rules of the Game" and Alice Walker, in "Everyday Use" investigate the relationships between mothers and daughters, relationships that the authors find compelling in and of themselves and that they also find to be illuminative of the larger conflicts between past and future, tradition and progress, the Old World and the New. Both writers root their stories within a specific ethnic tradition, but both are also engaged in that retelling of the universal that is intrinsic to the storyteller's art. Each story is both that of a specific type of mother-daughter relationship - Chinese-American or African-American - but is also the story of all generational change and conflict in all places and all times."Rules of the Game" is one of the semi-autonomous sections of The Joy Luck Club, which as a novel tells multi-layered stories about the different ways in daughters and mothers love each other, and the ways in which their different conceptions of past and future have the power to tear each other apart. Tan writes - in this novel and in other works - about h
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