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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... child humiliates her parents by botching a piano recital, first-generation Chinese-American daughters distance themselves from their partially assimilated Chinese mothers, and a concubine lops o› her hair as a gesture of defiance to ...
... child-husband and pay her way to America. Suyuan Woo makes a new home in California while searching China nearly a half century for her lost twins. LuLing Liu Young earns renown and a comfortable living for brushing on parchment the ...
... child batterer. Over a cycle of brutality, Winnie develops guile and backbone. After the deaths of her infant daughters Mochou and Yiku, she rescues Danru, her first son, from the dominance of Wen Fu and accepts imprisonment rather than ...
... children will eventually benefit from what they've done” (Chatfield-Taylor, p. ¡78). February 19, 1952 A native Californian, An-mei Ruth “Amy” Tan was born in Oakland. The Tans named their middle child and only daughter for two ...
... children's success: “When I was growing up, my parents used to point to Ginny Tiu [a child pianist who performed often on “The Ed Sullivan Show”], and say, why can't you be like her?” (Esther Wu). In adulthood, Tan met Tiu and confessed ...
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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 |