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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... Tan's published works. A third appendix provides forty-five topics for group or individual projects, composition, analysis ... Tan's essays, novels, short fiction, and memoirs in the newspapers of major cities in the United States, Great ...
... Tan's supportive males coordinate well with the women they admire and refute charges of critics that Tan uses fiction as a form of male-bashing. Tan's skill at fiction extends from plot and character to the intricacies of literary ...
... Tan from a writer of popular ethnic fiction to a masterful contributor to world and feminist literature. The huge following for Amy Tan's writings attests to her success at feminist and universal themes. Her novels, stories, and essays ...
... Tan reflected, “Books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable ... Tan felt the e›ects of depression, a serious mental debility that caused her ... fiction. She won a transistor radio and publication in the Santa Rosa Press ...
... stories drawn from a single family. It became the impetus to Tan's career in family-oriented fiction. She told interviewer Louise Naversen of Harper's Bazaar, “I just loved that book and thought, 'Hmm, maybe I can write a number of stories ...
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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 |