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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... killed " ( Vogel , p . C14 ) . The difference in perception illustrates dissimilar mindsets between mother and daughter , each of whom applies a personal measuring stick to the nature and threat of national cataclysm . The variance in ...
... killed themselves to escape polyg- yny . By playing on his fears of vengeful ghosts , the concubine wheedles an increase in her allowance , more luxuries , even amenities for her parents . The trickery epito- mizes the extremes to which ...
... killed in bombing Wang Fuchi ---- | father mother tall northerner , possibly a Mongol Auntie Aiyi b . 1911 | ---- -- | children Suyuan “ Su ” Li = Canning Woo officer of | founded Joy b . 1916 ; Kuomintang ; | Luck Club ; nephew uncles ...
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Acknowledgments | 1 |
Chronology of Tans Family History Life and Works | 7 |
Tans Genealogy | 31 |
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