Reading Amy Tan
eBook - PDF

Reading Amy Tan

  1. 152 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Reading Amy Tan

About this book

This essential discussion of Amy Tan's life and works is a necessity for high school students and an enriching supplement for book club members. A tour-de-force in Asian American writing, Amy Tan has created works that are essential to high school and undergraduate literature classes and are often book club selections. Reading Amy Tan is a handy resource that offers both groups plot summaries of five of Tan's novels, as well as character and thematic analysis. The handbook also provides an overview of Tan's life and discusses how she emerged onto the scene as a novelist. Tan's typical themes, including Asian American issues and mother-daughter relationships, are examined in relation to today's current events and pop culture. Readers will also discover how and where they can find Tan on the Internet, and how the media has received her works. The "What Do I Read Next" chapter will help readers find other authors and works that deal with similar subjects. This handbook is an indispensable tool for both high school and public libraries.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Chapter 1 Amy Tan: A Writer’s Life
  5. Chapter 2 Amy Tan and the Novel and Short Story
  6. Chapter 3 The Joy Luck Club (1989)
  7. Chapter 4 The Kitchen God’s Wife (1991)
  8. Chapter 5 The Hundred Secret Senses (1995)
  9. Chapter 6 The Bonesetter’s Daughter (2001)
  10. Chapter 7 Saving Fish from Drowning (2005)
  11. Chapter 8 Other Works by Amy Tan
  12. Chapter 9 Today’s Issues in Amy Tan’s Work
  13. Chapter 10 Pop Culture in Amy Tan’s Work
  14. Chapter 11 Amy Tan on the Internet
  15. Chapter 12 Amy Tan and the Media
  16. Chapter 13 What Do I Read Next?
  17. Resources
  18. Index