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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... Lindo Jong , who lived in poverty before leaving the motherland for a freer life in America . A valuable model for women seeking autonomy is Lindo's feminist exemplum , " The Red Candle , " a story blending folk traditions of betrothal ...
... Lindo m . 1949 In The Joy Luck Club ( 1989 ) , Tan characterizes Lindo Jong as cruelly competi- tive and brutally frank , two traits of people born under the sign of the horse . Lindo suffers from the misery of a brokered betrothal ...
... Lindo from her first marriage persists into old age . To outflank Suyuan Woo , Lindo and her friend “ ceaselessly [ torment ] each other with boasts and secrets " ( p . 194 ) . Lindo plays a destructive game of comparing June Woo , a ...
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Acknowledgments | 1 |
Chronology of Tans Family History Life and Works | 7 |
Tans Genealogy | 31 |
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