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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... Novel of the Americas Symposium at the University of Colorado at Boulder, she echoed some of her teen sentiments by ... novels would one day be analyzed in Notes. While pursuing a career in neurosurgery, Tan gradually outgrew adolescent ...
... novels of Isabel Allende, Kaye Gibbons, Jamaica Kincaid, Maxine Hong Kingston, Alice Munro, and Flannery O'Connor ... Novel Writing (¡989) and How Fiction Works (2000). Tan and other participants expected either to “be torn to pieces ...
... novel, reflect elements of her own personality and experience. March 22, 1989 Tan issued The Joy Luck Club, a cross-cultural feminist novel endorsed on the dust jacket by Louise Erdrich, Alice Ho›man, and Alice Walker. It immediately ...
... novel launched a cultural revolution by introducing readers to ethnic scenarios. A handful of exacting Asian-American critics dismissed the work as dumbed-down Orientalism suited to Caucasian readers. Sau-ling Cynthia Wong characterized ...
... Novel” (¡99¡), an essay issued in Publishers Weekly, she compared her quandary to “the rat who had taken the wrong turn at the beginning and had scrambled to ... a dead end” (p. 7). Among the pangs of celebrity were demands for Tan's ...
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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 |