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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... weeks preceding Chinese New Year , when Helen wants to sweep her life clean of lies and secrets about the past . Because wartime events bind her to Winnie , Helen can't divulge only her share of the lies without laying bare the truth ...
... weeks before she is hospitalized for dysentery ( JLC , p . 326 ) . Winnie receives a last letter from Peanut ( KGW , p . 303 ) . Li Chen gives birth to Kwan , Jack Yee's first child ( HSS , p . 6 ) . Suyuan and Canning Woo search for ...
... weeks ( KGW , pp . 424-425 ) . On a visit to Peanut in Shanghai's Japanese section , Winnie encounters Jimmy Louie on the street five years after their first meeting ( KGW , p . 434 ) . Winnie leaves Wen Fu and , with her father's ...
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Acknowledgments | 1 |
Chronology of Tans Family History Life and Works | 7 |
Tans Genealogy | 31 |
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