SOURCE: “Genes, Generation, and Geospiritual (Be)longings,” in Imagining the Nation: Asian American Literature and Cultural Consent, Stanford University Press, 1998, pp. 111–17.
In the following essay, Li discusses the emphasis in Tan's works, including The Joy Luck Club, on female familial relationships.
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