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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... revolt- ing atrocities committed by the Manchu against God Worshippers in 1864 during the Taiping Rebellion . A dismayingly pictorial response to mercenary attacks is Nunumu's instinctive attempt to rejoin the head and body of Lao Lu ...
... Taiping Rebellion of 1864 takes Tan far afield from the emotional territory of her first two novels . In counterpoint against the magical realism of Kwan's vivid spirit world and time - tripping across serious emotional geography ...
... Taiping Rebellion ( 1864 ) Tan contrasts milieus in The Hundred Secret Senses ( 1995 ) with the memories of Kwan Li , a late - twentieth - century ghost - seer who recalls her life in Changmian , Chi- nag , which ended violently in 1864 ...
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Acknowledgments | 1 |
Chronology of Tans Family History Life and Works | 7 |
Tans Genealogy | 31 |
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