Amy Tan
Bloom, Harold2008
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Contemporary novelist Amy Tan's work has received a great deal of acclaim from feminist critics for its focus on issues of matrilineage and the ultimate triumph over female victimization. This title includes an introductory essay by Harold Bloom.
Main title:
Amy Tan / by Harold Bloom (Editor)
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Imprint:
New York Bloom's Literary Criticism 2008
Collation:
206 p. Mode of access: World Wide Web
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Audience:
SecondaryGeneral
Contents:
Editor's note - Introduction - Harold Bloom - (Mis) reading The Joy luck club / Melanie McAlister - Daughter-text / mother-text: Matrilineage in Amy Tan's Joy luck club / Marina Heung - Patriarchy, imperialism, and knowledge: in The Kitchen god's wife / Judith Caesar - Sugar sisterhood: Situating the Amy Tan phenomenon / Sau-Ling Cynthia Wong - A womanist production of truths: The use of myths in Amy Tan / Wenying Xu - Voice, mind, self: Mother-daughter relationships in Amy Tan's The Joy luck club and The Kitchen god's wife / M. Marie Booth Foster - Americanization and hybridization in The Hundred secret senses by Amy Tan / Lina Unali - Feng shui, astrology, and the five elements: Traditional Chinese belief in Amy Tan's The Joy luck club / Patricia L. Hamilton - The semiotics of China narratives in the contexts of Kingston and Tan / Yuan Yuan - Chinese and dogs in Amy Tan's The Hundred secret senses: Ethnicizing the primitive a la new age / Sheng-Mei Ma - The silencing effect of canonicity: Authorship and the written word in Amy Tan's novels / Lisa M. S. Dunick - Chronology - Contributors - Bibliography - Acknowledgments - Index.
ISBN:
9781438117133 (ebook)
Dewey class:
813.54 TAN
Local class:
813.54
Language:
English
Subject:
Tan, Amy, 1952- -- Joy Luck Club -- CriticismWomen and literature -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 20th centuryPopular literature -- United States -- CriticismTan, Amy, 1952- -- CriticismChinese American women in literatureChinese Americans in literatureTan, Amy, 1952- -- Hundred secret senses -- CriticismTan, Amy, 1952- -- Kitchen god's wife -- Criticism
BRN:
62404
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | 813.54 TAN | Not for loan (Set: 10 Feb 2016) |