Amy Tan: A Literary CompanionMcFarland, Incorporated, Publishers, 9 thg 9, 2004 - 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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... Fish Cheeks " ( 1987 ) , an early effort published in Seventeen and reprinted in The Opposite of Fate : A Book of Musings ( 2003 ) . At the holiday table on Christmas Eve , a significant moment arises when the father plucks a succulent ...
... Fish Cheeks " ( 1987 ) , the teenage pro- tagonist stops talking during a Christmas Eve dinner of Chinese delicacies that embar- rasses her before Robert , a Caucasian boy she wants to impress . The silence does not hide from her mother ...
... Fish Cheeks . " Compare her devotion to traditional foodways and cour- tesy with the beliefs of An - mei Hsu's mother , Rose Hsu Jordan , Lena St. Clair Livotny , Old Aunt , Auntie Aiyi , Nelly Banner , Du Lili , GaoLing Liu Young , and ...
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Acknowledgments | 1 |
Chronology of Tans Family History Life and Works | 7 |
Tans Genealogy | 31 |
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