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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... ghost of Big Ma. Ruth Luyi Young acquires respect for her grandmother, Precious Auntie, by having a biographical manuscript translated from Chinese into English. Auntie Du remains in Shanghai to be near Winnie Louie during her fifteen ...
... ghost-seer who retreats into a past life to o›er her Amerasian sister another chance at domestic happiness. Fans greet Tan at booksignings and campus lectures with thanks for her sincerity. Awards and photo ops picture her as a rising ...
... ghosts and her imaginative storytelling in fractured English. Daisy erroneously assumed that Amy communed with the spirit world from age three. Daisy regretted not having the powers of otherworldly communication, but insisted that Amy ...
... ghost-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 ...
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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 |