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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... death from deliberate opium consumption, an inkmaker's loss from fire at a Peking shop, and an industrial magnate's face-o› against occupation forces. Flashes of realism leap from the pages as a teenager salts her diary with cruel ...
... 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 resumption of a domestic nightmare. Tan turns Winnie's experiences into grist for talk ...
... death Jingmei helped to mourn. New Year's Day, 1925 Out of despair at being a concubine of lowly rank, in ¡925, Jingmei swallowed raw opium concealed in New Year's rice cakes. Her death took place in front of her nine-year-old daughter ...
... death, threats of suicide, and object-hurling that the author described as “emotional terrorism” (Longenecker). She explained in The Opposite of Fate, “She had a need to cling to and then reject everyone she loved” (p. 340). In the ...
... death. Peter's loss occurred at an uncomfortable phase of Amy's adolescence, when she rebelled against her bicultural background and resented the Tans' contributions to poor cousins in Taiwan. 1968 The death of Peter Tan preceded 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 |