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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... family trees account for connections between kinship lines, as with the link between the Youngs and the family of Dr. Gu, evidence that Winnie Louie and Helen Kwong are not related by blood or marriage, and the recovered sisterhood that ...
... family curses are outdated superstitions. Jimmy Louie cradles his lover Winnie and tenderly frees her from flashbacks of trauma. Canning Woo comforts his daughter June by supplying details of his late wife's heroism and devotion to ...
A Literary Companion Mary Ellen Snodgrass. Chronology. of. Tan's. Family. History,. Life. and. Works. 1924 Author Amy Tan was influenced by the discord and tragedy in her maternal family line. Her mother, Daisy Du Ching, was born into what ...
... family circle was less amiable. Her o›-center relationship with Daisy began in toddlerhood with lis- tening in ... family traveled a California freeway, she opened the door of the car and threatened to jump out” (Singh Gee, p. 85). Daisy ...
... family anecdotes that circulated in Shanghaiese between her mother and aunties while they shelled peas, snapped beans, chopped vegetables, or pounded dough. Although living with a family that spoke English poorly and owned no mentally ...
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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 |