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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... women. These deft touches elevate Tan from a writer of popular ethnic fiction to a masterful contributor to world ... woman-to-woman relations. She fills her plots with praise for female characters who accept near-impossible tasks—a ...
... women. Her mother actually organized a female gathering like the Joy Luck Club. Amy recalls, “It was named by my ... woman, you're supposed to su›er in silence” (Kepner, p. 59). Taken together, the three precepts produced a no-win ...
... women's fiction and ethnic literature. The interlaced text began as a short story, “Endgame” (¡986), about a rebellious chess prodigy and, after galleys went out for initial readings, shifted into an atmospheric ethnic novel dedicated ...
... 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 playing stage and ...
... women's liberation. At her mother's request, Tan decided to tell Daisy's story about her disastrous twelve-year union with a bullying sexual deviate. The author confided to interviewer Jonathan Mandell, “I think one of my mother's great ...
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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 |