Amy Tan: A Literary CompanionMcFarland, 24 thg 1, 2015 - 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. |
Từ bên trong sách
Kết quả 6-10 trong 76
A Literary Companion Mary Ellen Snodgrass. Chronology. of. Tan's. Family. History,. Life. and. Works. 1924 Author Amy Tan was influenced by the discord and tragedy in her maternal family line. Her mother, Daisy Du Ching, was born into what ...
... Amy” Tan was born in Oakland. The Tans named their middle child and only daughter for two missionaries; her Chinese name means “blessing from America.” Reared in an insular home, she valued her family lineage, “the tapestry of who ...
... Amy in eleven districts before she graduated from high school. 1955 Reared in the coastal cities of Oakland, Hayward, Santa Rosa, Palo Alto, and Sunnyvale before the final move to Santa Clara, Tan was the perpetual loner and new kid on ...
... Amy's adolescence, when she rebelled against her bicultural background and resented the Tans' contributions to poor cousins in Taiwan. 1968 The death of Peter Tan preceded a sudden paralysis on one side of her father's body. John Tan's ...
... Tan's first husband, died in China at Christmas, a fact she learned in ¡989. The event served the novelist in The ... Amy Tan transferred to San Jose City College and changed majors from medicine to a double concentration in English and ...
Nội dung
1 | |
3 | |
7 | |
Tans Genealogy | 31 |
A Literary Companion | 33 |
Chronology of Historical and Fictional Events in Tans Works | 189 |
Foreign Terms in Tans Works | 200 |
Writing and Research Topics | 206 |
Bibliography | 213 |
Index | 225 |