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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... father today ” ( Ibid . ) . Despite Daisy's quirks , Tan grew up in a loving matrix of strong women . Her mother actually organized a female gathering like the Joy Luck Club . Amy recalls , “ It was named by my father - a group of ...
... father's mansion on Julu Road . In 1935 , she rejects Lin , a mannerly , educated suitor who later crops up at Jimmy ... father extends her expectations with return to her mother's old room , a formal welcome to his table , and a week of ...
... father in the short - short story " Fish Cheeks " ( 1987 ) , who feeds his teenage daughter her favorite food , a soft piece of flesh from beneath the eye of a steamed rock cod , which he plucks with his own chopsticks . In The Joy Luck ...
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Acknowledgments | 1 |
Chronology of Tans Family History Life and Works | 7 |
Tans Genealogy | 31 |
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