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. |
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... book written about her trials: “She not only wanted to give me her story but I think she was looking for a way to release the pain and the anger over 'that bad man,'” her mother's cloaked reference to Wang Zo, her first husband (Doten ...
... book and thought, 'Hmm, maybe I can write a number of stories linked by community'” (Naversen, p. ¡¡6). Tan consumed other authors' fiction to jump-start her thinking—“to startle my mind, to tingle my spine, to take the blinders o ...
... book under the proposed title Wind and Water. Tan exclaimed, “It was like winning the lottery when I hadn't really bought a ticket!” (Bennett, p. C2). She admitted fears that the publisher chose her proposal merely to fill an ethnic ...
... Book for Young Adults award, Bay Area Book Reviewers prize, and Commonwealth Club gold citation as well as nominations for the Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year and a National Book Critics Circle's Best Novel. Joy Luck was also a ...
... book's presentation of the AsianAmerican community, critic Sheng-Mei Ma noted that “Tan may be the best-paid tour guide of Chinese America” (Ma, p. xiv). The novel rose to number one bestseller on the New York Times list in four weeks ...
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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 |