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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... lives of fictional characters, for example, the approach of Communists to Shanghai and Wen Fu's rape at gunpoint of his ex-wife. The entries contain abbreviated reference and page numbers of the works from which each event derives. A ...
... Lives of Women,” p. 90). 1935 Daisy grew up pampered by servants and grandmother and showered with privileges. At age nineteen, she married Wang Zo, an abusive womanizer and pilot for the Kuomintang air force, whom she barely knew. 1941 ...
... live apart from her husband, a surgeon posted a thousand miles from home. The two settled in Wisconsin to operate a Chinese eatery. November, 1987 On return, Tan began listening to Daisy's life stories with renewed interest and sympathy ...
... lives flow through each other— whether mothers and daughters, friends and relatives, rich girls and beggar girls, or sisters across oceans and continent” (Kim, p. 83). Also impressive were actors' responses to playing stage and film ...
... Live.” She also contributed four essays to A Closer Look: The Writer's Reader, which anthologized works by Joan Didion, Annie Dillard, Jamaica Kincaid, Ursula Le Guin, Edward Said, John Updike, and Alice Walker. ¡992 Tan ventured into ...
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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 |