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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... mother, Daisy Tan, the author absorbed a subjective appreciation of Chinese traditions, rituals, and history. Without apology, the author mined from talk-story a lifetime of oddments and topical strands to flesh out the attack of Manchu ...
... mother's viewpoint and values caused constant clashes, particularly her insistence that Amy was unattractive ... mother as small, but combative—“just determined as hell” (Somogyi & Stanton, p. 24). Daisy's feisty public behaviors caused ...
... mother actually organized a female gathering like the Joy Luck Club. Amy recalls, “It was named by my father—a group ... mother's instructions in three sentences: “First, if it's too easy, it's not worth pursuing. Second, you have to try ...
... mother from seeming like a crazed child-killer: “Who wouldn't crack? A son and a husband had died seven months apart. You're in a strange country with no support system, you don ... mother's primary language. Of this concession Chronology 12.
A Literary Companion Mary Ellen Snodgrass. to study Mandarin, her mother's primary language. Of this concession to ... mother], I find a lot of humor and wisdom and truth about myself” (Kanner, p. 3). December 25, 1970 Wang Zo, Daisy ...
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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 |