Amy Tan

Tan, Amy - 1952–, American novelist, b. Oakland, Calif. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, she has taken for her theme the lives of Asian-Americans and the generational and cultural differences among them, concentrating on women's experiences. Tan's novels include The Joy Luck Club (1989), The Kitchen God's Wife (1991), and The Hundred Secret Senses (1995). She has also written a Read More...

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Amy Tan
by Harold Bloom. 174 pgs.

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Amy Tan

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Editor's Note

Introduction

Theorizing Ethnicity and Subjectivity: Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey and Amy Tan's the Joy Luck Club

Generational Differences and the Diaspora in the Joy Luck Club

Daughter-Text/Mother-Text: Matrilineage in Amy Tan's Joy Luck Club

Memory and the Ethnic Self: Reading Amy Tan's the Joy Luck Club

Only Two Kinds of Daughters: Inter-Monologue Dialogicity in the Joy Luck Club

Chinese American Women, Language, and Moving Subjectivity

The Spirit Within

Swan-Feather Mothers and Coca-Cola Daughters: Teaching Amy Tan's the Joy Luck Club

The Hundred Secret Senses

The Semiotics of China Narratives in the Con/Texts of Kingston and Tan

Chronology

Contributors

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index
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Amy Tan: A Critical Companion
by E. D. Huntley. 168 pgs.

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Amy Tan has established a reputation as a major novelist of not only the Asian American experience but the universal experience of family relationships. With the publication of her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, which touched the hearts of millions of readers, Tan joined the ranks of major contemporary novelists. Adapting her brand of Chinese traditional talk story as a vehicle for exploring the lives of the mothers and daughters at the center of her novels, Tan allows readers to experience the lives of her characters from multiple perspectives in parallel and intersecting narratives. In this first full-length study of her work, E.D. Huntley explores the fictional worlds Tan has created in her three novels, The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, and The Hundred Secret Senses. Examining the characters, narrative strategies, plot development, literary devices, setting, and major themes, Huntley explores the rich tapestry created in each of the novels.

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Advisory Board

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Series Foreword

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1: The Life of Amy Tan

2: Amy Tan and Asian American Literature

3: The Joy Luck Club (1988)

4: The Kitchen God's Wife (1991)

5: The Hundred Secret Senses (1995)

Bibliography

Index

About the Author
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Asian-American Women Writers ("Amy Tan" begins on p. 81)
by Harold Bloom. 142 pgs.

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Asian‐ American Women Writers

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The Analysis of Women Writers

Introduction

Diana Chang B. 1934

Edith Maude Eaton 1865-1914 Winnifred Eaton 1875-1954

Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn B. 1949

Maxine Hong Kingston B. 1940

Joy Kogawa B. 1935

Bharati Mukherjee B. 1938

Amy Tan B. 1952

Linda Ty-Casper B. 1931

Jade Snow Wong B. 1919

Hisaye Yamamoto B. 1921

Wakako Yamauchi B. 1924
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The Silencing Effect of Canonicity: Authorship and the Written Word in Amy Tan's Novels, in MELUS
by Lisa M. S. Dunick. 18 pgs.

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Generational Differences and the Diaspora in the Joy Luck Club, in Critique
by Walter Shear. 7 pgs.

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Private Voices, Public Lives: Women Speak on the Literary Life ("Mother/Daughter Dialog(ic)s in, around and about Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club" begins on p. 111)
by Nancy Owen Nelson. 310 pgs.

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Private Voices, Public Lives Women Speak on the Literary Life

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Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction

I: The Work/Love Paradigm

"Tangled Together like Badly Cast Fishing Line" the Reader and the Text in Katherine Anne Porter's "Pale Horse, Pale Rider"

Love, Work, and Willa Cather

The Voices from the Little House

Rewriting the Love Plot Our Way Women and Work

II: The Text as Mirror

Nancy Drew—the Perfect Solution

Wrestling with the Mother and the Father "His" and "Her" in Adrienne Rich

In Search of the Androgynous Self

From Robot to Roarer

A White Bird Flying Straight Down

Being an I-Witness—my Life as a Lesbian Teacher

Mother/Daughter Dialog(ic)s In, Around and About Amy Tan's the Joy Luck Club

Offshore Women a Personal Log

Metamorphosis Mutations of a Hungarian Continental Drifter into an American Woman

Trapped—then Released—by a Gift from the Sea

Speaking Across Boundaries and Sharing the Loss of a Child

Trailing West

Dakota: a Spiritual Geography, Revisited

III: Teaching and Writing the Self

Growing Up with Doctor Spock an Auto-Biography

From Impersonators to Persons Breaking Patterns, Finding Voices

Search and Rescue

Diversity and the American Dream

Women's Literature as Individuation for College Students

Finding My Voice Caught Between a Woolf and a Crane

Literary Criticism with a Human Face Virginia Woolf and the Common Reader

Contributor Biographies

Index to Authors, Characters, Subjects
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"Only Two Kinds of Daughters": Inter-Monologue Dialogicity in The Joy Luck Club, in MELUS
by Stephen Souris. 25 pgs.

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"Chinese and Dogs" in Amy Tan's The Hundred Secret Senses: Ethnicizing the Primitive a la New Age, in MELUS
by Sheng-mei Ma. 16 pgs.

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Representing History in Amy Tan's The Kitchen God's Wife, in MELUS
by Bella Adams. 22 pgs.

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The Deathly Embrace: Orientalism and Asian American Identity (Chap. Five "The Chinese Siamese Cat: Chinoiserie and Ethnic Stereotypes")
by Sheng-Mei Ma. 185 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Imperialist Adventure Narratives

Chapter One: Imagining the Orient in the Golden Age of Adventure Comics

Chapter Two: Walt Disney's Swiss Family Robinson Imperialist Ideology in Family Entertainment

Part II: Clash of Arms

Chapter Three: Martial Metaphors and Asian America

Chapter Four: Vincent Chin and Baseball Law, Racial Violence, and Masculinity

Part III: Multicultural Flaunting of Ethnicity

Chapter Five: The Chinese Siamese Cat Chinoiserie and Ethnic Stereotypes

Chapter Six: “chinese and Dogs” in the Hundred Secret Senses the Primitive à La New Age

Chapter Seven: Consuming China and Animating Teen Dreams

Part IV: Masquerading of Ethnicity

Chapter Eight: Performance in Whiteface

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography and Filmography

Index
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Cultural Translation and the Exorcist: A Reading of Kingston's and Tan's Ghost Stories, in MELUS
by Ken-Fang Lee. 22 pgs.

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Mules and Dragons: Popular Culture Images in the Selected Writings of African-American and Chinese-American Women Writers (Chap. 5 "Sui Sin Far to Amy Tan")
by Mary E. Young. 158 pgs.

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Young compares and contrasts the histories of African-American and Chinese-American women, then analyzes each group's response to the stereotyped images that have become a part of American cultural history. Her vehicle for this study is fiction from writers as diverse as James Fenimore Cooper, William Wells Brown, Ambrose Bierce, and Frank Chin, and from Euro-American, African-American, and Chinese-American writers who created the dominant stereotypes. Young examines the response to these stereotypes in the writings of key African and Chinese-American women writers such as Linda Brent, Frances Harper, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Sui Sin Far, Chang Hua, and Amy Tan.

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Recent Titles in Contributions in Women's Studies

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Preface

Chapter One "John Chinaman" As "Sambo"

Notes

Chapter Three The Female Response: Harriet E. Wilson To Alice Walker

Chapter Four Dragon Ladies, Susie Wongs, And Passive Dolls

Chapter Five Sui Sin Far to Amy Tan

Chapter Six African-Americans And Chinese-Americans

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Author
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Chinese American Women, Language and Moving Subjectivity, in Women and Language
by Victoria Chen. 5 pgs.

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Asian American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Amy Tan" begins on p. 365)
by Emmanuel S. Nelson. 424 pgs.

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As a distinct area of literary study, Asian American literature now enjoys a level of critical recognition that was unimaginable when academic interest in the field began modestly some 25 years ago. Part of this recognition stems from the increasing contributions of Asian American novelists, whose works continue to capture growing levels of popular attention. This reference book provides alphabetically arranged entries for 70 Asian American novelists. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides a short biography, a discussion of major works and themes, an overview of the novelist's critical reception, and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. In addition, the volume concludes with a selected, general bibliography.

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Meena Alexander: (1951- )

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Himani Bannerji: (1942- )

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Susham Bedi: (1945- )

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William Peter Blatty: (1928- )

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Vance Bourjaily: (1922- )

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Cecilia Manguerra Brainard: (1947- )

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Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: (1951-1982)

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Diana Chang: (1934- )

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Evelina Chao: (1949- )

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Frank Chin: (1940- )

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Sook Nyul Choi: (1937- )

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Susan Choi: (1969- )

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Denise Chong: (1953- )

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Louis Hing Chu: (1915-1970)

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Richard Crasta (also Avatar Prabhu): (1952- )

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Kiran Desai: (1972- )

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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: (1956- )

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Winnifred Eaton: (1875-1954)

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Indira Ganesan: (1960- )

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Stephen Gill: (1932- )

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Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn: (1949- )

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Chuang Hua: (?- )

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Cynthia Kadohata: (1956- )

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Younghill Kang: (1903-1972)

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Richard E. Kim: (1937- )

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Maxine Hong Kingston: (1940-)

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Bharti Kirchner: (1940- )

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Joy Kogawa: (1935- )

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Alex Kuo: (1939- )

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Helena Kuo: (1911- )

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Chang-Rae Lee: (1965- )

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C. Y. Lee: (1917- )

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Gus Lee: (1946- )

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Marie G. Lee: (1964- )

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Sky Lee: (1952- )

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Adet Lin (also Tan Yun): (1923-1971)

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Steven C. Lo: (1949- )

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Bette Bao Lord: (1938- )

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Anchee Min: (1957- )

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Rohinton Mistry: (1952- )

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Kyoko Mori: (1957- )

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Toshio Mori: (1910-1980)

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Bharati Mukherjee: (1940- )

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Milton Murayama: (1923- )

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Kirin Narayan: (1959- )

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Fae Myenne Ng: (1957- )

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Mei Ng: (1967- )

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Hualing Nieh: (1925- )

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Sanjay Nigam: (1959- )

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John Okada: (1923-1971)

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Michael Ondaatje: (1943- )

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Nahid Rachlin: (1947- )

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Balachandra Rajan: (1920- )

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Ninotchka Rosca: (1946- )

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Patsy Sumie Saiki: (1915- )

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Bienvenicio N. Santos: (1911-1996)

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Lisa Lenine See: (1955- )

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Shyam Selvadurai: (1965- )

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Vikram Seth: (1952- )

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S. Shankar: (1962- )

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Bapsi Sidhwa: (1938- )

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Mai-Mai Sze: (1905- )

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Lin Tai-Yi (also Anor Lin or Lin Wu-Shuang): (1926- )

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Amy Tan: (1952- )

Linda Ty-Casper: (1931- )

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Holly Uyemoto: (1970- )

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Jade Snow Wong: (1922- )

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Shawn Wong: (1949- )

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Lois-Ann Yamanaka: (1961- )

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Karen Tei Yamashita: (1951- )

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Selected Bibliography

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