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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... June Woo adds depth to her two-dimensional life by retracing the Chinese diaspora to convey her deceased mother's love to adult children, Chwun Hwa and Chwun Yu, whom Suyuan left behind during a national panic. These extraordinary ...
... Woo comforts his daughter June by supplying details of his late wife's heroism and devotion to motherhood. Long Jiaguo redeems himself from female batterer to loyal husband by marrying Helen, his victim's sister. Gan, a young pilot, o ...
... June Woo reunites with twin half-sisters, whom the family had not seen in forty-five years. The intimacy of a first meeting with the Chinese side of the family reminded the author of how much the sisters owed to Daisy—her gestures ...
... Jong, Rose Hsu Jordan, Lena St. 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 ...
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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 |