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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... father's rights to children, she left behind the three daughters sired by Wang Zo. In California, John found work ... Father Knows Best'” (Fong, p. ¡23). Throughout Amy's early life, her father o›ered comfort and sanctuary during Daisy's ...
... father today” (Ibid.). Despite Daisy's quirks, Tan grew up in a loving matrix of strong women. Her mother actually organized a female gathering like the Joy Luck Club. Amy recalls, “It was named by my father—a group of people I grew up ...
... father shared his sermons with her by reading them aloud and asking if there were any words that needed explaining. She profited from her father's storytelling ability, Chinese fables and fairy tales, and the gossip and family anecdotes ...
... father's body. John Tan's death from brain tumor at age fifty-four exaggerated Amy Tan's teen funk and her expectations of failure. She told a BBC interviewer, “I was rebelling against any kind of hope in the world” (“Amy Tan”). She ...
... father was thinking, 'She's going to need somebody to take care of her—she's a bit out of control,' so he found Louis for me” (Singh Gee, p. 86). He o›ered her stability and a›ection, but his parents disapproved of their son's love ...
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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 |