Dinh, Khanh T., et al. “Introduction to Special Issue: Trauma and Well-Being among Asian American Women.” Women & Therapy, vol. 41, no. 3-4, 2018, pp. 189–202., https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2018.1425021.
Harris, Malcolm. “Behavior Modification.” Kids These Days: Human Capital and The Making of Millennials, Little, Brown and Company, New York City, NY, 2017, pp. 164–198.
This book analyzes how the economy has impacted the Millennial generation, and the significance of this specific generation being the first to experience one of the biggest shifts in the United States economy. Harris, a freelance writer and editor of the New Inquiry as well as a Wall Street occupier, brings in the perspective of how the stereotypes of the Millennial generation are broken with the statistics and accomplishments his generation has achieved as they were the first generation to be born and go through the economic shift of high speed productivity. With promoting the idea of shifting the approach to generational differences towards confronting socio-cultural repercussions that impact the environment a generation grows into, Harris does a phenomenal data analysis, behavior adaptation, and the socio-cultural issues that have derived With this, I will analyze how generations are differentiable by the environments they grow in and how that inevitably seeps into the evolution of future generations.
Henry, Astrid. Not My Mother’s Sister: Generational Conflict and Third-Wave Feminism, Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 2004.
Jen, Gish. “An Asian-American Generation Gap”. The New York Times, March 24, 2021 Wednesday. advance.lexis.com/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:628T-P9S1-DXY4-X2HV-00000-00&context=1516831. Accessed April 11, 2022.
Kang, Inkoo. It’s Time to Forgive The Joy Luck Club, Slate Culture Magazine, Booklyn, N.Y., 2018.
Pan, Deanna. “For Asian Americans, heart-to-heart talks can bridge generation gap”. The Boston Globe, July 6, 2021 Tuesday. advance.lexis.com/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:6330-MKN1-DYHJ-301S-00000-00&context=1516831. Accessed April 11, 2022.
This article talks about recent heart-to-heart conversations young adults from Generation Z have been having with their parents with the recent global events that has given them the space to talk about racism and cultural identity, topics that have been hard to talk about before the COVID-19 pandemic. Reporting features and enterprise pieces for The Boston Globe, Pan gives insight from different members of second-generation Asian-Americans, before the pandemic and the grudges that have tended to surface as miscommunication and different expectations between the young adults and their parents. Through connecting the similar struggles the second-generation Asian-Americans were experiencing together and different realizations the younger generations were having about their parents, Pan emphasizes the importance of how these specific young adults shifted their approach to become more understanding of where their parents are coming from. With this claim, it will fuel my stance on the importance of learning more of where generational trauma can come from, especially in Asian-American families.
Shi, Domee, director. Turning Red. Disney, 2022.
This film production revolves around a young girl named who turns into a big red panda when she cannot control her emotions. This issue ends up being a struggle that her mother, aunties, grandmother, and past female lineage in her ancestry has experienced when they hit the same age as the young girl. It allows exposure and understanding to how children have different expectations of their parents, but more specifically how second-generation immigrants and Asian kids can misunderstand intention from generational trauma; the relationship between the young girl and her mother derives from how her mother wanted her mother to raise her. Domee Shi was born in China and raised in Canada. Her film production work as an animator, director and screenwriter dates back to 2011 working for Pixar. She was involved in film projects such as Toy Story 4, Incredibles 2, and Inside Out. With her experience in these projects, she directed a short film in 2018 named Bao, which captures a moment where a Chinese Canadian mother and her son have a moment of tension when he starts to want more independence as an individual as he ages. With this four-year project (Turning Red), Domee Shi and her head project board integrate the complexities of generational trauma in the form of a cute animation that can allow young teenage girls to understand what is going on with their bodies. The way this film captures wanting to be independent as a second-generation Asian and also shining light on how first-generation asian immigrants experience with their immigrant parents and so forth, supporting the stance of understanding where generational trauma comes from.
Tibbetts, John C. “A Delicate Balance: An Interview with Wayne Wang about the Joy Luck Club.” Literature Film Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 1, Jan. 1994, p. 2. EBSCOhost, libraries.ou.edu/access.aspx?url=https://https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=9503101638&site=ehost-live.
This goes in-depth into how Wayne Wang crafted the Joy Luck Club film adaptation and the intentionality of the message that he intertwined into the film. In this interview, Wang addresses why he wanted to make the film adaptation of the book as someone who produces film that address generational conflict and trauma among multiple generations of Chinese and Chinese-Americans.
Wang, Wayne, director. The Joy Luck Club. Hollywood Pictures, 1993.
Wang’s film adaptation of Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club captures the experience of disconnect between four pairs of first-generation and second-generation Chinese-Americans who reside in the San Francisco Bay Area. The first-generation Chinese-Americans experienced generational trauma. The fear and uncertainty of the Sino-Japanese War motivated the first-generation to reach the new and hopeful opportunistic land of America for the future of their daughters. The mothers raised their daughters how they wanted to raise them, and did not see eye-to-eye with what their daughters truly wanted in the present time. Using the story, the complexities of historical factors from the past influencing the first-generation Chinese-American immigrants to move to the hopeful opportunities in America seep into how these mothers raise their daughters will help support my claim with the approach of addressing things that influenced older generations in the past and how that carries into the present day. Also, the second-generation Chinese-American daughters face the clash that occurs among what they truly want as daughters and the questioning of fulfilling wishes of their mothers, which is something I’ve started to notice with how my siblings and I have changed our approach to better understand our first-generation Vietnamese-American parents.
Wong, Al. “Why The Joy Luck Club Sucks.” Why “The Joy Luck Club” Sucks, 28 Jan. 1997, https://www.eskimo.com/~webguy/writings/joysucks.html.
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Sonya, here’s a slightly out-there suggestion. This may sound a little cheesy/corny to you, or it may appeal.
Before I get to it, my reasons: you have so many good sources and so many interlocking interests, but it’s not quite clear to me what kind of framework could do them justice.
What if you use the Boston Globe article as a kind of “setup source”—if you use it to introduce a certain kind of conversation, and then imitate/model your paper on an imaginary conversation of that kind? Of course, if you were one of the protagonists of this imaginary heart-to-heart, you would just possibly have access to some valuable sources, having done some research, and could use these to help play your part in that conversation…..
(This might stimulate your imagination in other directions too, I know—an
“outside-the-box” essay style is definitely possible!)