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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... stories drawn from a single family. It became the impetus to Tan's career in family-oriented fiction. She told ... Story Review, Ski, and Threepenny Review. From gradual understanding of honest narrative, Tan gained confidence. She ...
... story, “Endgame” (¡986), about a rebellious chess prodigy and, after galleys went out for initial readings, shifted into an atmospheric ethnic novel dedicated to Daisy Tan. A mathematically precise plot revealed in sixteen chapters ...
... story of how women's lives flow through each other— whether mothers and daughters, friends and relatives, rich girls and beggar girls, or sisters across oceans and continent” (Kim, p. 83). Also impressive were actors' responses to ...
... story of Jiang “Winnie” Weili Louie is a saga of hope that reprises the su›erings of Tan's grandmother Jingmei and mother Daisy. The mode is an intimate talk-story that the speaker o›ers as a gift to her daughter Pearl. Although a ...
... story line, but the character” (Moody, p. A7). Another situation, Daisy's attendance at one of Amy's speeches, made the author more aware of her educated vocabulary and sentence structure and the limitations of her mother's ...
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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 |