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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... woman with a gift , the blue perfume bottle that Winnie treasures because it once belonged to her mother . The present implies Winnie's mother - daugh- ter relationship with the older woman , who deserves the honor . Tan illustrates a ...
... woman with a gift , the blue perfume bottle that Winnie treasures because it once belonged to her mother . The present implies Winnie's mother - daugh- ter relationship with the older woman , who deserves the honor . Tan illustrates a ...
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... woman and her idealistic duck that wanted to have the long neck of a goose lie elements of the main text . Transformed beyond expectation into a swan , the bird accompanies her on a voyage to the United States , but is seized by authori ...
... woman and her idealistic duck that wanted to have the long neck of a goose lie elements of the main text . Transformed beyond expectation into a swan , the bird accompanies her on a voyage to the United States , but is seized by authori ...
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... woman's keeping until the time is right for mother to tell daughter the source of the mother's ambitions . Subsequent stories illustrate virtues and sins , for example , Popo's tale of the little girl who swells up like a pregnant woman ...
... woman's keeping until the time is right for mother to tell daughter the source of the mother's ambitions . Subsequent stories illustrate virtues and sins , for example , Popo's tale of the little girl who swells up like a pregnant woman ...
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Acknowledgments | 1 |
Chronology of Tans Family History Life and Works | 7 |
Tans Genealogy | 31 |
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Amerasian Amy Tan's An-mei Hsu Asian American Bonesetter's Daughter Bonesetter's Daughter 2001 Book Changmian child China Chinese Siamese Cat Ching dynasty Chwun Hwa Chwun Yu Clair Daisy Danru daugh death family's father female Feminist Feng Shui feudal marriage Fish Cheeks Fu's Further Reading genealogy ghost girl Helen Hundred Secret Senses husband Japanese Jiang Sao-yen Jimmy Louie Joy Luck Club June Woo Kitchen God's Wife Kuomintang Kwan Kwan's Kwong Lena Lindo Jong Ling lives Luck Club 1989 LuLing Liu LuLing's mah jong MELUS Moon Lady mother mother-daughter relationships Nelly Banner nese novel Nunumu Olivia Yee Laguni Opposite of Fate patriarchal Peanut Pearl Louie Peking Precious Auntie Review San Francisco Secret Senses 1995 Shanghai Sheng-mei Simon Bishop Sino-Japanese sister story storytelling suicide Suyuan Woo Taiping Rebellion talk-story Tan's fiction Tan's The Joy Waverly Jong Winnie Louie Winnie's women writing Wu Tsing Ying-ying St
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| Tiêu đề | Amy Tan: A Literary Companion Tập 3 trong tổng số McFarland Literary Companions |
| Tác giả | Mary Ellen Snodgrass |
| Ấn bản | có minh hoạ |
| Nhà xuất bản | McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers, 2004 |
| Nguyên bản từ | Đại học Michigan |
| Đă được số hóa | 30 Tháng Năm 2008 |
| ISBN | 0786420138, 9780786420131 |
| Độ dài | 240 trang |
| Xuất lời trích dẫn | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |