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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... Shanghai and Wen Fu's rape at gunpoint of his ex-wife. The entries contain abbreviated reference and page numbers of the works from which each event derives. A second appendix compiles a glossary of foreign terms and idioms, such as ...
... Shanghai to be near Winnie Louie during her fifteen months in women's prison while Winnie turns incarceration into a chance to help female inmates find their own way in a man's world. The woman-to-woman spread of hope and uplift ...
... Shanghai. Of the social implications of parental suicide, Daisy later confided, “We had no face! We belonged to nobody! This is a shame I can never push o› my back” (“Lost Lives of Women,” p. 90). 1935 Daisy grew up pampered by servants ...
... Shanghai tabloids ballyhooed the events of her twelve-year marriage to Wang, who had her apprehended by the police and put on trial. Daisy served a prison sentence for adultery with John, the man she eventually married. At age thirty ...
... Shanghai. The couple, who shared her parents' three-room apartment, had no privacy because the waiting time for their own quarters was sixteen years. Traveling the Huangpu River, a route integral to the plot of The Kitchen God's Wife ...
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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 |