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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... John Tan . The couple spoke different dialects- Daisy fluent in Mandarin and Shanghaiese and John more conversant with Cantonese . During a period of civil war preceding the Communist takeover , she was wise to flee her homeland only ...
... John Tan's death from brain tumor at age fifty - four exaggerated Amy Tan's teen funk and her expectations of failure . She told a BBC interviewer , " I was rebelling against any kind of hope in the world ” ( “ Amy Tan ” ) . She ...
... John . " Tiger Ladies . " Time , Vol . 133 , March 27 , 1989 , p . 98 . Smith , Craig S. “ A Rare Shot at Screen Star- dom for Asians . " Wall Street Journal , Sep- tember 1 , 1992 , p . 12 . Snodgrass , Mary Ellen . Literary Treks ...
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Acknowledgments | 1 |
Chronology of Tans Family History Life and Works | 7 |
Tans Genealogy | 31 |
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