Amy Tan: A Literary CompanionIn 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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After his bayoneting by Japanese executioners , LuLing clings to her husband's words that their love survives unchanged , immortal . Upon Luling's immigration to California , her dominant role gives place to dependence on her daughter ...
After his bayoneting by Japanese executioners , LuLing clings to her husband's words that their love survives unchanged , immortal . Upon Luling's immigration to California , her dominant role gives place to dependence on her daughter ...
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Luling demands faultless obedience and constantly carps at her daughter for laziness . ... Elucidating Luling's demands for filial love is the revelation that she failed her own mother , whom she knew as Precious Auntie , her nursemaid ...
Luling demands faultless obedience and constantly carps at her daughter for laziness . ... Elucidating Luling's demands for filial love is the revelation that she failed her own mother , whom she knew as Precious Auntie , her nursemaid ...
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Tan carefully reduces LuLing to ignominy before portraying her rise to the good life in America . The author establishes LuLing's strength of character through her foil , GaoLing Liu , her cousin and foster sister .
Tan carefully reduces LuLing to ignominy before portraying her rise to the good life in America . The author establishes LuLing's strength of character through her foil , GaoLing Liu , her cousin and foster sister .
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Preface | 1 |
Chronology of Tans Family History Life and Works | 7 |
Tans Genealogy | 31 |
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American Amy Tan's An-mei Asian becomes begins Bishop Bonesetter's Daughter Book California causes Chang characters child China Chinese Christian Clair communication critic Daisy death describes example explains expresses Fall Fate father fear female fiction force Further Reading genealogy ghost girl gives Helen hope Hundred Secret Senses husband illustrates Japanese Jiang Jimmy Jong Joy Luck Club June Kitchen God's Wife Kwan Kwan's learns leaves Lindo lives Luck Club 1989 Luling LuLing's March marriage married memories mother mother-daughter novel offers Olivia parents past Pearl Precious Auntie Press relationship Review Ruth Shanghai share Siamese Cat silence Simon sister social spirit story suffers suicide Suyuan takes turns Waverly Wen Fu Winnie Winnie Louie Winnie's woman women writing Ying-ying York Young