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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... Book Buyer Wonderland Books Hickory, North Carolina Wanda Rozzelle and Amy Jew, reference librarians Catawba County Library Hannah Owen, deputy director Hickory Public Libraries Hickory, North Carolina Newton, North Carolina Mark ...
... of more complex solutions. She escaped mental unrest through reading, especially Grimms' fairy tales, Aesop's fables, fairy tales, bible stories, and the prairie memories of Laura Ingalls Wilder. In ¡996, Tan reflected, “Books 9 Chronology.
... Books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable” (“Interview”). In The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings (2003), she identified books as “windows opening and illuminating my room” (p. ¡). 1958 As early as age six, Tan ...
... Book of Musings (200¡). In retrospect, she exonerated her mother from seeming like a crazed child-killer: “Who wouldn't crack? A son and a husband had died seven months apart. You're in a strange country with no support system, you don ...
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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 |