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Amy Tan - A Literary Companion (Paperback)
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Amy Tan - A Literary Companion (Paperback)
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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. Tan's work - once pigeonholed as ethnic
literature, a niche market with limited appeal - resonates 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 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 offers an introduction to and overview of Amy Tan's
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 Tan's 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 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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