In some ways, Yang's ABC would've made a better Joy Luck had it been around when Joy Luck was, if that makes sense. But we need all we can get, really--and I mean it in the broader sense of fuzzy-edged Asian Am representation, where the pan-, blurry nature of the Asian Am-ness is a virtue instead of a curse. (People ten years my junior seem often to think that Joy Luck's blurriness is a curse, since Tan opened the doors enough for resonance outside Chinese Am urban conclaves. I am not "we" when the walls move inwards, after all.)
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Date: 16 August 2018 06:13 am (UTC)In some ways, Yang's ABC would've made a better Joy Luck had it been around when Joy Luck was, if that makes sense. But we need all we can get, really--and I mean it in the broader sense of fuzzy-edged Asian Am representation, where the pan-, blurry nature of the Asian Am-ness is a virtue instead of a curse. (People ten years my junior seem often to think that Joy Luck's blurriness is a curse, since Tan opened the doors enough for resonance outside Chinese Am urban conclaves. I am not "we" when the walls move inwards, after all.)