Indonesian Journal of English Language Studies (IJELS)
Vol 5, No 1 (2019): March 2019

Spivak’s Strategic Essentialism Reading on Amy Tan’s “The Red Candle”

Williany, Vania (Unknown)
Turuk, Didimus E. (Unknown)

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Publish Date
12 Dec 2019

Abstract

This paper analyzes the struggle of a Chinese-American woman in “The Red Candle”, one of the vignettes in Amy Tan’s novel The Joy Luck Club (1989). The main character namely Lindo Jong, is confined with patriarchy and tradition and is forced to marry her fiancée at her teenage. Fascinatingly, Lindo can free herself from the arranged marriage and her oppressive new family by a clever scheme. Spivak’s strategic essentialism is then applied to scrutinize this particular issue. Indeed, by strategic essentialism, Lindo still upholds her value as a Chinese woman and her respect to her filial piety, also, she can obtain her own independence as a woman.Keywords: Chinese-American woman, patriarchy, tradition, strategic essentialism

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Indonesian Journal of English Language Studies (IJELS)
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IJELS

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Universitas Sanata Dharma

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Arts Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences

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The Indonesian Journal of English Language Studies (IJELS, online and print versions, is a journal dedicated to contribute to the improvement of English Language Studies in Indonesia. It is intended to contribute to human progress and development by way of English Linguistics, Literature, Education ...