Amy Tan: A Literary CompanionMcFarland, 24 thg 1, 2015 - 240 trang In the mid-1980s, Amy Tan was a successful but unhappy corporate speechwriter. By the end of the decade, she was perched firmly atop the best-seller lists with The Joy Luck Club, with more popular novels to follow. Tan's work--once pigeonholed as ethnic literature--resonates with universal themes that cross cultural and ideological boundaries, and prove wildly successful with readers of all stripes. Tender, sincere, complex, honest and uncompromising in its portrayal of Chinese culture and its affect on women, Amy Tan's work earned her both praise and excoriation from critics, adoration from fans, and a place as one of America's most notable modern writers. This reference work introduces and summarizes Amy Tan's life, her body of literature, and her characters. The main text is comprised of entries covering characters, dates, historical figures and events, allusions, motifs and themes from her works. The entries combine critical insights with generous citations from primary and secondary sources. Each entry concludes with a selected bibliography. There is also a chronology of Tan's family history and her life. Appendices provide an overlapping timeline of historical and fictional events in Tan's work; a glossary of foreign terms found in her writing; and a list of related writing and research topics. An extensive bibliography and a comprehensive index accompany the text. |
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... Tan's Family History, Life and Works 7 Tan's Genealogy 3¡ Amy Tan: A Literary Companion 33 Appendix A: Chronology of Historical and Fictional Events in Tan's Works ¡89 Appendix B: Foreign Terms in Tan's Works 200 Appendix C: Writing and ...
... Amy Tan's contributions to feminist, American, and Amerasian literature, Amy Tan: A Literary Companion o›ers an introduction and overview. It equips the reader, feminist, his- torian, student, researcher, teacher, reviewer, and ...
... Tan's published works. A third appendix provides forty-five topics for group or individual projects, composition, analysis, background material, enactment, and theme development ... Amy Tan's writings are a model of the writer's Preface 2.
A Literary Companion Mary Ellen Snodgrass. Introduction. Amy Tan's writings are a model of the writer's truism that the best subject lies close to home. Her domestic scenarios have the ring of authenticity, in part because she draws ...
... Amy Tan's writings attests to her success at feminist and universal themes. Her novels, stories, and essays brim with support for strong motherdaughter and woman-to-woman relations. She fills her plots with praise for female characters ...
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Tans Genealogy | 31 |
A Literary Companion | 33 |
Chronology of Historical and Fictional Events in Tans Works | 189 |
Foreign Terms in Tans Works | 200 |
Writing and Research Topics | 206 |
Bibliography | 213 |
Index | 225 |