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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... Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings (2003), she identified books as “windows opening and illuminating my room” (p ... Opposite of Fate, “She had a need to cling to and then reject everyone she loved” (p. 340). In the chaotic household ...
... death. Peter's loss occurred at an uncomfortable phase of Amy's adolescence, when she rebelled against her bicultural ... Opposite of Fate that she watched two members of her family “waste away to skeletons” (p. 369). Her uncle worsened ...
... 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. You're in a strange country with no ...
... 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. Of billiards, she claimed ...
... 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 talent, changed her telephone number, and moved from a ...
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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 |