| Amy Tan Contributor(s): Snodgrass, Mary Ellen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0786420138 ISBN-13: 9780786420131 Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc. OUR PRICE: $49.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2004 Annotation: 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 hugely popular novels to follow. Tans workonce pigeonholed as ethnic literature, a niche market with limited appealresonates with universal themes that cross cultural and ideological boundaries, and proved wildly successful with readers of all stripes. Tender, sincere, complex, honest and uncompromising in its portrayal of Chinese culture and its affect on womenAmy Tans work earned her both praise and excoriation from critics, adoration from fans, and a place as one of A mericas most notable modern writers. This reference work offers an introduction to and overview of Amy Tans life, her body of literature, and her characters, motifs and themes. The main text is comprised of entries covering characters, dates, historical figures and events, allusions, motifs and themes from Tans works, among other topics. The entries combine both critical insights with generous citations from primary and secondary sources. Each entry concludes with a selected bibliography. There is also a chronology of Tans family history and her life. Appendices provide an overlapping timeline of historical andfictional events in Tans 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Reference - Literary Criticism | American - Asian American - Literary Criticism | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 813.54 |
| LCCN: 2004014713 |
| Series: McFarland Literary Companion |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.96" W x 10.02" (0.98 lbs) 232 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Asian - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |