Cultural Ethnicity in Select Novels of Amy Tan

ABSTRACT

Post colonial theorists analysed the problem that arise due to mass migration as people are always on the move for various reasons in post modern world . The mass mobility results in losing one’s native culture owing to dislocation. In the era of globalization movements and sudden jerks have become part of one’s life. It includes social, cultural and psychological shifts. The migrated people wander with twin identities, twin cultures and twin mind – sets in search of their new identity. Ethnicity is the pattern behavior and attitude of groups. The concept of cultural ethnicity is not a rigid one which often undergoes changes, summation of the ethnic consciousness. Amy Tan, Asian – American writer portrays the experience of women, feeling of isolation. Her works focuses on stifling shift of three generational existence in their home land China and their new abode America. This paper focuses on Cultural ethnicity in select novels of Amy Tan.

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