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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... died of influenza died of suicide from opium in New Year's cakes in 1925 | took Jingmei as concubine . | in 1924 lawyer Nunu Aiyi second cousin called " Precious Auntie " ; scarred by smallpox abandoned son = Sau - sau became a ...
... died of Alzheimer's disease before the work was complete : " The regrets are hers , the fear of the curse , the sense of danger she instilled in me while wanting me to have a better life . Asking forgiveness is in the book as well ...
... died of tuber- culosis in 1935. The incident at first mystifies , then illuminates Winnie's perception of Wen Fu as husband and air force flier . She begins to see him as two people , the real man and the manipulative poseur . To ...
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Acknowledgments | 1 |
Chronology of Tans Family History Life and Works | 7 |
Tans Genealogy | 31 |
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