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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... Lena . During a visit to Lena , the mother - in - law sizes up disparities in her husband , architect Harold Livotny , who remodeled a barn into their trendy home . The tipsy bedside table and wobbly vase collapse , causing Lena to rush ...
... Lena St. Clair Just as competition shapes Waverly Jong's childhood in The Joy Luck Club ( 1989 ) , a pervasive doom threatens her friend and contemporary Lena St. Clair . At age five , she begins suffering abnormal fears derived from ...
... Lena's opti- mism . Tan depicts Lena as a confused individual lacking a clear perception of cause and effect . Although the Livotnys live in a modish remodeled barn outside San Fran- cisco in Woodside and drive a Jaguar , she fails to ...
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Acknowledgments | 1 |
Chronology of Tans Family History Life and Works | 7 |
Tans Genealogy | 31 |
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