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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... Clair, Woo, Yee, and Young clans. In addition to clearing up confusion about Chinese names, these family trees account for connections between kinship lines, as with the link between the Youngs and the family of Dr. Gu, evidence that ...
... Clair urges her daughter Lena to protest the devaluation that the egotistical Harold Livotny heaps on her through petty list-making. The clairvoyant Kwan Li releases pent-up hurts by talking over the past with the ghost of Big Ma. Ruth ...
... Clair Livotny, and June Woo, the four daughters at the heart of the novel, reflect elements of her own personality and experience. March 22, 1989 Tan issued The Joy Luck Club, a cross-cultural feminist novel endorsed on the dust jacket ...
... Clair's childhood mischief in The Joy Luck Club, the legend describes a spunky six-year-old who attends the annual Moon Festival, a night when wishes come true. In September, Tan began a book tour introducing her emergence as a ...
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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 |