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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... Kuomintang servant girl + Wen Fu = Jiang Weili “ Winnie ” = James Y. “ Jimmy ” rape victim b . 1914 | b . 1919 age 14 ; Kuomintang in Shanghai ; dies from abortion air force | abandoned at pilot | age six ; reared by | uncle and aunts ...
... Kuomintang . An - mei's mother , who ran away to marry Wu Tsing , reclaims her daugh- ter and takes her to Tientsin ( JLC , p . 36 ) . Although An - mei's mother offers a strip of flesh for a healing soup , Grand- mother Popo dies ( JLC ...
... Kuomintang ( KGW , p . 360 ) . Kuomintang pilots and their wives flee by truck on a two - month journey fourteen hundred miles to Kunming in southwest China on the Burma Road ( KGW , p . 297 ) . Chinese officials set up a new capital in ...
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Acknowledgments | 1 |
Chronology of Tans Family History Life and Works | 7 |
Tans Genealogy | 31 |
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