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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... Lake in mid - autumn . The child is eager to divulge a secret wish to Lady Chang - o , a mythic female who lives on the moon . Ying - ying has normal shortcomings , includ- ing not wanting to share her rabbit rice cake with her cousins ...
... Lake , which Tan reprises in a children's book , The Moon Lady ( 1992 ) . The sce- nario of preparations for a holiday meal reveal the cruelties of life . Ying - ying observes as two boys provide meat for dinner by girdling the throat ...
... lake , and Jack Yee's deathbed confession and request . 33. Summarize the Chinese values of the mother in " Fish Cheeks . " Compare her devotion to traditional foodways and cour- tesy with the beliefs of An - mei Hsu's mother , Rose Hsu ...
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Acknowledgments | 1 |
Chronology of Tans Family History Life and Works | 7 |
Tans Genealogy | 31 |
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