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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... China and reunited with two of her daughters, Amy feared that she would lose out by comparison: “I thought she would ... China. The reason loomed in the author's subconscious: “I was cut o› from Chinese society, and yet I was bound to it ...
... Chinese citizens took the jobs that the government assigned them rather than choose for themselves. One of Tan's half-sisters chose to leave China rather than live apart from her husband, a surgeon posted a thousand miles from home. The ...
... China” (Sauling Wong, p. ¡86). A militant critic of Asian-American feminists, Frank Chin, author of “Come All Ye Asian American Writers of the Real and the Fake” (¡99¡), labeled Tan an outright phony prostituting her art for the white ...
... China. She wisely excused herself from political and social issues and retreated into her specialty—family. August 9, 1989 Tan published an article in Glamour magazine, “Watching China” (¡99¡), on the Tiananmen Square confrontation. A ...
... China and lived in other areas of the Pacific Rim. Shields illustrated Tan's story with Manchu-style images. An outgrowth of Ying-ying St. Clair's childhood mischief in The Joy Luck Club, the legend describes a spunky six-year-old who ...
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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 |