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. |
Từ bên trong sách
Kết quả 1-5 trong 81
A Literary Companion Mary Ellen Snodgrass. 1987 Tan began to worry about the toll that the writing of speeches for business executives was taking on her life. She faced a common midlife discovery, that success does not equate with happiness ...
... Tan issued The Joy Luck Club, a cross-cultural feminist novel endorsed on the dust jacket by Louise Erdrich, Alice Ho›man, and Alice Walker. It immediately moved in two directions, as popular women's fiction and ethnic literature. The ...
... Tan gave credit to serendipity because The Joy Luck Club was published at a time when baby boomer mothers had daughters of their own to understand. The story “hit a nerve because women had begun to think about themselves and their ...
... Joy Luck Club in her framework novel The 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 ...
... Tan's story with Manchu-style images. An outgrowth of Ying-ying St. Clair's childhood mischief in The Joy Luck Club, the legend describes a spunky six-year-old who attends the annual Moon Festival, a night when wishes come true. In ...
Nội dung
1 | |
3 | |
7 | |
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 |