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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... mother wanted a 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 ...
... mothers and four Asian-American daughters, one recently bereaved by her mother's sudden death. Tan told the story in simple language to ease her mother's reading of English. Balanced by feng shui, the novel disencumbers the speakers ...
... mothers had daughters of their own to understand. The story “hit a nerve because women had begun to think about themselves and their mothers” (Fry, p. C4). Because of the massive following, Ivy Books paid $¡.23 million for the paperback ...
... 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 despairs was that she went ...
... mother's understanding. The situation introduces one of Tan's frequently anthologized essays, “Mother Tongue,” a reflection on the silencing of immigrants who have not gained competence in the language of their second country. She ...
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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 |