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Bloom's Literary Criticism, New York, NY
With the publication of her first novel, "The Joy Luck Club", in 1989, Amy Tan was immediately recognized as a major contemporary novelist. Her work has received a great deal of attention and acclaim from feminist critics for its focus on issues of...
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With the publication of her first novel, "The Joy Luck Club", in 1989, Amy Tan was immediately recognized as a major contemporary novelist. Her work has received a great deal of attention and acclaim from feminist critics for its focus on issues of matrilineage and the ultimate triumph over female victimization. Enhanced by a chronology, bibliography, notes on the contributors, and a introductory essay by noted literature professor Harold Bloom.
(Mis)reading the Joy Luck Club / Melanie McAlisterDaughter-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 con/texts of Kingston and Tan / Yuan Yuan -- "Chinese and dogs" in Amy Tan's The hundred secret senses: ethnicizing the primitive à la New Age / Seng-Mei Ma -- The silencing effect of canonicity : authorship and the written word in Amy Tan's novels / Lisa M. S. Dunick -- Chronology.
(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 con/texts of Kingston and Tan / Yuan Yuan -- "Chinese and dogs" in Amy Tan's The hundred secret senses: ethnicizing the primitive à la New Age / Seng-Mei Ma -- The silencing effect of canonicity : authorship and the written word in Amy Tan's novels / Lisa M. S. Dunick -- Chronology
Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-195) and index. - (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 con/texts of Kingston and Tan / Yuan Yuan -- "Chinese and dogs" in Amy Tan's The hundred secret senses: ethnicizing the primitive à la New Age / Seng-Mei Ma -- The silencing effect of canonicity : authorship and the written word in Amy Tan's novels / Lisa M. S. Dunick -- Chronology
(Mis)reading the Joy Luck Club / Melanie McAlisterDaughter-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 con/texts of Kingston and Tan / Yuan Yuan -- "Chinese and dogs" in Amy Tan's The hundred secret senses: ethnicizing the primitive à la New Age / Seng-Mei Ma -- The silencing effect of canonicity : authorship and the written word in Amy Tan's novels / Lisa M. S. Dunick -- Chronology.
(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 con/texts of Kingston and Tan / Yuan Yuan -- "Chinese and dogs" in Amy Tan's The hundred secret senses: ethnicizing the primitive à la New Age / Seng-Mei Ma -- The silencing effect of canonicity : authorship and the written word in Amy Tan's novels / Lisa M. S. Dunick -- Chronology
