Amy Tan: A Literary CompanionMcFarland, Incorporated, Publishers, 26 thg 8, 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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... suicide's ghost , Wu Tsing increases her allowance to more than she demanded . Subsequent pretended suicides illustrate the power of pre - death pos- turing , which nets the second wife a better room , private rickshaw , home for her ...
... suicide's ghost , Wu Tsing increases her allowance to more than she demanded . Subsequent pretended suicides illustrate the power of pre - death pos- turing , which nets the second wife a better room , private rickshaw , home for her ...
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... suicide Tan's fiction frequently portrays suicide as a woman's method of exiting a hope- less male - female relationship or feudal marriage . She introduces the theme in The Joy Luck Club ( 1989 ) through the threats of Suyuan Woo to ...
... suicide Tan's fiction frequently portrays suicide as a woman's method of exiting a hope- less male - female relationship or feudal marriage . She introduces the theme in The Joy Luck Club ( 1989 ) through the threats of Suyuan Woo to ...
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... suicide . Ironically , the cruel death becomes , like the suicide of An - mei's mother , a posthumous love gift protecting LuLing from an evil she is too naive to suspect . The motif of self - murder recurs after LuLing loses her ...
... suicide . Ironically , the cruel death becomes , like the suicide of An - mei's mother , a posthumous love gift protecting LuLing from an evil she is too naive to suspect . The motif of self - murder recurs after LuLing loses her ...
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Acknowledgments | 1 |
Chronology of Tans Family History Life and Works | 7 |
Tans Genealogy | 31 |
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