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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... ghosts that steal young boys . Her third novel , The Hundred Secret Senses ( 1995 ) , narrates a bi - level plot permeated with spirit lore in which Kwan Li , a ghost - seer , moves easily from the late twentieth century back to the ...
... ghost - seers . Although the rural community is unaware of Big Ma's death , Kwan's knowledge of the loss is obviously correct , as corroborated by an official who reports her death in a car - bus accident that morning on the road to ...
... ghost . To curb its extreme misbehaviors , she calls in George , a Chinese engineer - psychic , to rid her house of the unwelcome phantom . After discerning that the ghost is female hiding in the eaves , he organizes a séance to nudge ...
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Acknowledgments | 1 |
Chronology of Tans Family History Life and Works | 7 |
Tans Genealogy | 31 |
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