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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... sisters chose to leave China rather than live apart from her husband, a surgeon posted a thousand miles from home. The two settled in Wisconsin to operate a Chinese eatery. November, 1987 On return, Tan began listening to Daisy's life ...
... sisters across oceans and continent” (Kim, p. 83). Also impressive were actors' responses to playing stage and film roles from Tan's novels and the fervid fan letters to her, such as one from a Missouri teenager who realized that “some ...
... sister living in Beijing encouraged her not to worry about rioting and government retaliation. Reflecting on her sister's life during China's upheaval, Tan wondered how her life and art would have di›ered if John and Daisy Tan had not ...
... sister Jindo, a nurse married to Yan Zheng, a surgeon. The author helped them and their fourteen-year-old daughter relocate to Wisconsin. In this same period, Tan received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Dominican ...
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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 |