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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... talk-story, the female outlet for repressed memory and an antidote to the patriarchal silencing of women. Back matter is designed to aid the student, reviewer, and researcher. Appendix A orients the beginner with a time line of ...
... talk-story a lifetime of oddments and topical strands to flesh out the attack of Manchu mercenaries on a Christian enclave, the terror of a refugee fleeing Japanese invaders, a despairing concubine's death from deliberate opium ...
... talk-story to a‡rm her daughter, Pearl Louie Brandt, during a battle with multiple sclerosis. The transformation of ... talking over the past with the ghost of Big Ma. Ruth Luyi Young acquires respect for her grandmother, Precious Auntie ...
... speech pathologist for mentally disabled children. She was instrumental in helping a mute ... talk-stories of her past. The author realized that her mother wanted a book written about her trials: “She not only wanted to give me her story ...
... 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 ...
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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 |