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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... China, the historical milieu, autobiography, men, dismemberment, superstition, humor, and wisdom. Charts elucidate the convoluted genealogies of the Bonesetter Gu, Hsu, Jong, Kwong, Louie, St. Clair, Woo, Yee, and Young clans. In ...
... China's survival. At a time when black American soldiers in Europe rid themselves of plantation racism during World War II and the contributions of female soldiers and nurses and of Rosie the Riveter prophesied the expansion of ...
... China nearly a half century for her lost twins. LuLing Liu Young earns renown and a comfortable living for brushing on parchment the artful pictograms of the Chinese alphabet she learned in childhood. Winnie Louie ends the torment and ...
... Chinese into English. Auntie Du remains in Shanghai to be near Winnie Louie during her fifteen months in women's ... China with his estranged wife to further their career and restore their former intimacy. When measured against the ...
... China” (Doten, p. 63). In secret, Tan worried that Daisy might prefer children who spoke Chinese and who might abide by strict Chinese deportment codes. August, 1968 After viewing a can of Old Dutch cleanser as a divine directive, Daisy ...
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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 |