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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... of Amy Tan's contributions to feminist, American, and Amerasian literature, Amy Tan: A Literary Companion o›ers an introduction and overview. It equips the reader, feminist, his- torian, student, researcher, teacher, reviewer, and ...
... o›ers her characters life-altering opportunities, some of which derive from hardship and heartbreak. GaoLing Young abandons Reagan era materialism by caring for her aged sister. Rose Hsu Jordan battles post-separation despair by defying ...
... of Chinese aphorism bear insights into attitudes, as with the reminder that raising a female child is as profitable as feeding the neighbor's pig. The judicious placement of fables and exempla o›ers insight into dilemmas and ...
... of that muscle. The imagination rusted” (Gurley). Tan empathized with her niece, who married in Shanghai. The couple ... o›ers for her stories, which formed a single book under the proposed title Wind and Water. Tan exclaimed, “It was ...
... of Jiang “Winnie” Weili Louie is a saga of hope that reprises the su›erings of Tan's grandmother Jingmei and mother Daisy. The mode is an intimate talk-story that the speaker o›ers as a gift to her daughter Pearl. Although a relative ...
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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 |