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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... female outlet for repressed memory and an antidote to the patriarchal silencing of women. Back matter is designed to aid the student, reviewer, and researcher. Appendix A orients the beginner with a time line of historical events in ...
... female Confucian principles and of battling the misogyny of the lapsed Ching dynasty. It is no accident that their rage at gender disparity and attendant cruelties erupts simultaneously with military threats to China's survival. At a ...
... female compliance and obedience to her motherless niece. Big Ma turns foster daughter Kwan Li into a child slave. Olivia Yee Bishop scapegoats her husband's old lover as the cause of marital failure. Rather than develop creativity, Ruth ...
... female scenarios bear humanistic touches of grace. Suyuan Woo alleviates insecurity in her daughter June May by giving her a jade necklace and a nudge toward self-esteem. Ying-ying St. Clair urges her daughter Lena to protest the ...
... female characters who accept near-impossible tasks—a pregnant bride traveling by wartime conveyance over much of China to reach safety in Kunming, a mother searching a California beach for the body of her drowned son, a friend who ...
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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 |