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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... story a lifetime of oddments and topical strands to flesh out the attack of Manchu mercenaries on a Christian enclave, the terror of a refugee fleeing Japanese invaders, a despairing concubine's death from deliberate opium consumption ...
... story to a‡rm her daughter, Pearl Louie Brandt, during a battle with multiple sclerosis. The transformation of tragedy into instruction illustrates the author's belief that secrets and silence are insidious enslavers of women. Tan's pro ...
... story results in Lady Sorrowfree, a nameless deity whom the author turns into a spokeswoman for beleaguered women ... stories, and essays brim with support for strong motherdaughter and woman-to-woman relations. She fills her plots with ...
... story is a question or a perspective or a nagging little emotion, and then it grows” (Giles). July, 1967 Daisy's sixteen-year-old son Peter fell into depression, then lapsed into a coma in May ¡967 before he died of a brain tumor two ...
... stories of her past. The author realized that her mother wanted a book written about her trials: “She not only wanted to give me her story but I think she was looking for a way to release the pain and the anger over 'that bad man,'” her ...
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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 |