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A Sublimation of Sisterhood:Amy Tan's The Hundred Secret Senses


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The main focus of Amy Tan's novels is women. She has written about the hardships and challenges women face in a man's world, a world in which even women become partners in crime with men in repressing members of their own sex. But while there are women who connive against women in order to keep them subservient, there are others who help them subvert this dominance. Therefore we find that female bonding is a very important subject in Tan's fiction, and can see it exemplified in all her novels. Although these women are aware of each other's weaknesses, are conscious of their differences from each other, have their disagreements and jealousies, yet there is a strong connection between them.
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Gurinder Kaur Singh
Dronacharya Govt. College, Gurgaon, Haryana, India

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The main focus of Amy Tan's novels is women. She has written about the hardships and challenges women face in a man's world, a world in which even women become partners in crime with men in repressing members of their own sex. But while there are women who connive against women in order to keep them subservient, there are others who help them subvert this dominance. Therefore we find that female bonding is a very important subject in Tan's fiction, and can see it exemplified in all her novels. Although these women are aware of each other's weaknesses, are conscious of their differences from each other, have their disagreements and jealousies, yet there is a strong connection between them.

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