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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... Daisy Tan, the author absorbed a subjective appreciation of Chinese traditions, rituals, and history. Without apology, the author mined from talk-story a lifetime of oddments and topical strands to flesh out the attack of Manchu ...
... Daisy Du Ching, was born into what one reviewer called the “florid decay of imperial China” (Walsh). Tan's maternal ... Daisy later confided, “We had no face! We belonged to nobody! This is a shame I can never push o› my back” (“Lost ...
... Daisy blamed her husband Wang Zo and ran away, leaving behind three daughters, ranging in age from four to eleven. He retaliated by refusing her visitation rights with the girls. The Shanghai tabloids ballyhooed the events of her twelve ...
... Daisy was di‡cult because of her belief in ghosts and her imaginative storytelling in fractured English. Daisy erroneously assumed that Amy communed with the spirit world from age three. Daisy regretted not having the powers of ...
... Daisy's sixteen-year-old son Peter fell into depression, then lapsed into a coma in May ¡967 before he died of a brain tumor two months later. After his diagnosis, Daisy Tan blamed his decline on a failing grade Chronology 10.
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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 |