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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... husband and pay her way to America. Suyuan Woo makes a new home in California while searching China nearly a half century for her lost twins. LuLing Liu Young earns renown and a comfortable living for brushing on parchment the artful ...
... husband by marrying Helen, his victim's sister. Gan, a young pilot, o›ers Winnie Louie a male-female friendship that boosts her morale at a low point in her marriage. Photographer Simon Bishop agrees to a journey to China with his ...
A Literary Companion Mary Ellen Snodgrass. myth of farmer Zhang, the ungrateful husband whom the Jade Emperor of Heaven turns into the judgmental Kitchen God. Tan's tweaking of the latter story results in Lady Sorrowfree, a nameless ...
... husband died of influenza. In an insidious example of polygyny, in ¡924, a wealthy industrialist raped Jingmei and added her to his household of three wives. She was known as the Replacement Wife for Divong, a previous wife whose death ...
... husband Wang Zo and ran away, leaving behind three daughters, ranging in age from four to eleven. He retaliated by refusing her visitation rights with the girls. The Shanghai tabloids ballyhooed the events of her twelve-year marriage to ...
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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 |