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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... central motif of The Joy Luck Club ( 1989 ) is the failure of the American expe- rience to satisfy the dreams and false hopes of emigrants from China . In the prefatory parable about a woman and her idealistic duck that wanted to have ...
... central axis of the book " ( Mistri ) . The mother attempts to shape the daughter into a Chinese Shirley Temple by curling her hair into ringlets . June dreams of being a prodigy - a ballerina or Cinderella , the type of dainty fairy ...
... central China and supplants the Kuomintang ( KGW , p . 360 ) . Kuomintang pilots and their wives flee by truck on a two - month journey fourteen hundred miles to Kunming in southwest China on the Burma Road ( KGW , p . 297 ) . Chinese ...
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Acknowledgments | 1 |
Chronology of Tans Family History Life and Works | 7 |
Tans Genealogy | 31 |
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