Contributor
West, Kathryn, 1962- editor.
ImprintIpswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2021]
Imprint2021
Descriptionxxxi, 225 pages ; 24 cm.
Note:About this volume / Kathryn West -- On Amy Tan / Kathryn West -- Amy Tan : a biography / Kathryn West -- The reception of Amy Tan's novels : a historical survey / Robert C. Evans -- Amy Tan and the critics / Rebecca Harris -- Perceiving Amy Tan's "mother tongue" through sociolinguistic and world Englishes lenses / Suneeta Thomas -- Images of Chinese prostitution in Amy Tan's The valley of amazement and Sui Sin Far's "Lin John" / Linda Trinh Moser -- Telling mothers' stories : the power of the maternal voice in The joy luck club / Shu-Jiang Lu -- Valuing the working mother in Amy Tan's The kitchen god's wife / Charity Gibson -- From "No name woman" to Gu Liu Xin : ghosts and writing in The bonesetter's daughter / Jeff W. Westover -- "It is my earliest memory" : audience, literary adaptation, and cultural representation in Amy Tan's writing for young readers / Joel D. Chaston -- Cut, cut, cut to the heart of the story : adapting Amy Tan's novels for theatre, film, and opera / Megan Burnett -- Ghostly traces of a colonial past in Amy Tan's Saving fish from drowning / Tina Powell -- The tensions of living between worlds in Amy Tan's Saving fish from drowning / Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw -- Circumstance, spacetime, and identity in Amy Tan's The valley of amazement / Qiping Liu.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-211) and index.
Note:"Amy Tan has called writing 'an extreme privilege, but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.' This volume discusses some of Tan's key themes: communication across generations of a family when those generations have grown up in different cultures, the immigrant experience, mother/daughter relationships, the intersection of gender roles and an Asian or Asian American experience, and depression and the artist, among others." -- Provided by publisher.
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