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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... feminist, American, and Amerasian literature, Amy Tan: A Literary Companion o›ers an introduction and overview. It equips the reader, feminist, his- torian, student, researcher, teacher, reviewer, and librarian with analysis of ...
... feminism from centuries of feudal repression. Without politically correct cant or subtextual intent, Tan expresses the yearnings and risk-taking of Chinese women who seize freedom by accepting the consequences of overturning anti-female ...
... feminist martyr Little Yu, Peanut extends a network of shelter and encouragement to refugees from patriarchal marriage. Lindo Jong concocts a nightmare so real that her in-laws gladly release her from a doomed union with a child-husband ...
... feminist literature. The huge following for Amy Tan's writings attests to her success at feminist and universal themes. Her novels, stories, and essays brim with support for strong motherdaughter and woman-to-woman relations. She fills ...
... feminist novel endorsed on the dust jacket by Louise Erdrich, Alice Ho›man, and Alice Walker. It immediately moved in two directions, as popular women's fiction and ethnic literature. The interlaced text began as a short story, “Endgame ...
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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 |