Amy Tan: A Literary CompanionIn 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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In The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings (2003), she identified books as “windows opening and illuminating my room” (p. ¡). 1958 As early as age six, Tan felt the e›ects of depression, a serious mental debility that caused her mother ...
In The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings (2003), she identified books as “windows opening and illuminating my room” (p. ¡). 1958 As early as age six, Tan felt the e›ects of depression, a serious mental debility that caused her mother ...
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She reminisced in The Opposite of Fate that she watched two members of her family “waste away to skeletons” (p. 369). Her uncle worsened family gloom by blaming John Tan for marrying a divorcee. Contributing to Amy's unhappiness was her ...
She reminisced in The Opposite of Fate that she watched two members of her family “waste away to skeletons” (p. 369). Her uncle worsened family gloom by blaming John Tan for marrying a divorcee. Contributing to Amy's unhappiness was her ...
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The author reprised her terror in The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings (200¡). In retrospect, she exonerated her mother from seeming like a crazed child-killer: “Who wouldn't crack? A son and a husband had died seven months apart.
The author reprised her terror in The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings (200¡). In retrospect, she exonerated her mother from seeming like a crazed child-killer: “Who wouldn't crack? A son and a husband had died seven months apart.
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In The Opposite of Fate, she admitted that her chosen field was “lucrative but meaningless” (p. 343). Discontent forced her to seek outlets playing jazz on the piano and shooting games of nine ball with her husband.
In The Opposite of Fate, she admitted that her chosen field was “lucrative but meaningless” (p. 343). Discontent forced her to seek outlets playing jazz on the piano and shooting games of nine ball with her husband.
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Of her notoriety among academics, she remarked in The Opposite of Fate that “the word author is as chilling as rigor mortis, and I shudder when I hear myself introduced as such” (p. 7). She learned to refuse requests for her time and ...
Of her notoriety among academics, she remarked in The Opposite of Fate that “the word author is as chilling as rigor mortis, and I shudder when I hear myself introduced as such” (p. 7). She learned to refuse requests for her time and ...
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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 |
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| Tiêu đề | Amy Tan: A Literary Companion Tập 3 trong tổng số McFarland Literary Companions |
| Tác giả | Mary Ellen Snodgrass |
| Ấn bản | có minh hoạ |
| Nhà xuất bản | McFarland, 2015 |
| ISBN | 1476602603, 9781476602608 |
| Độ dài | 240 trang |
| Xuất lời trích dẫn | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |