Comparison between the novel and the film version of Joy Luck ClubWayne Wang's adaptation of Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan combines literary and cinematographic devices by adopting the narrative techniques of novel and strengthening them through image and sound. The adaptation exemplifies not the destruction or abuse of Amy Tan's novel, but the emergence of a new work of art, unhindered but strengthened by the strengths of its literary precursor. Incorporating her family's experiences as Chinese immigrants to the United States, Amy Tan tells the story of four Chinese mothers (Suyuan Woo, An-mei Hsu, Lindo Jong, Ying-ying St. Clair) and their American-born daughters (Jing -mei "June" Woo, Rose Hsu Jordan, Wave...... middle of paper ....... Pour une lecture sociocritique de l'adaptation cinematographique Une publication de l'Institut de Sociocritique --Montpellier.1995 . Drolet. Telling His Stories to Change the (Con)text of Identity.UMI Dissertation Services Michigan 1994.Aycock, Wendell Film and Literature: A Comparative Approach to Adaptation, 1988.