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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... American roots with her parents' Asian customs and with being the only Asian face in her class. She admitted to Bookpage interviewer Ellen Kanner that life with Daisy was di‡cult because of her belief in ghosts and her imaginative ...
... American childhood, Tan maintained a double life by following Chinese customs at home. At night, she slimmed her broad Asian nose by clipping it with a clothespin. Her father shared his sermons with her by reading them aloud and asking ...
... Asian. In ¡992 in a speech to the Novel of the Americas Symposium at the University of Colorado at Boulder, she echoed some of her teen sentiments by rejecting the label of Asian ... American Baptist Scholarship, Amy Tan enrolled in pre-med ...
... American stereotyping of Asian students as more skilled in math and science than in language. He redirected her from ... Chinese society, and yet I was bound to it” (Rowland, p. ¡0). 1987 Tan began to worry about the toll that the ...
... Chinese mothers and four Asian-American daughters, one recently bereaved by her mother's sudden death. Tan told the story in simple language to ease her mother's reading of English. Balanced by feng shui, the novel disencumbers the ...
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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 |