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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... Kitchen God's Wife (¡99¡). 1945 While John Tan was working in Tientsin, he encountered Daisy on the street and discovered that their love-at-first-sight had endured a four-year separation. 1947 After a wretched marriage to a batterer ...
... Kitchen God's Wife, in which she depicts Winnie Louie's anger that the evil Wen Fu's death at Christmas robbed her of the ability to sing holiday carols. 1972 To be near DeMattei, Amy Tan transferred to San Jose City College and changed ...
... Kitchen God's Wife, the author was surprised to learn from a tour guide that Chinese citizens took the jobs that the government assigned them rather than choose for themselves. One of Tan's half-sisters chose to leave China rather than ...
... Kitchen God's Wife, a roman á clef that honors the author's parents and older brother Peter. Set during the chaos of the Sino-Japanese War, the episodic story of Jiang “Winnie” Weili Louie is a saga of hope that reprises the su›erings ...
... Kitchen God's Wife earned over two hundred fifty million dollars in hardcover before advancing to paperback. Literary Guild paid $425,000 for distribution rights as a main selection; Tan's agent worked out foreign rights with England ...
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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 |