Bella Adams

Amy Tan

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the most comprehensive study to date of Amy Tan's work. It offers close readings of her texts in the context of broader debates about the representation of identity, history and reality. In contrast with Tan's own American-born narrators, and mainstream critics, Bella Adams's study looks beyond the stereotypes which appear in Tan's books, and explores the ways in which Chinese immigrants and their American relatives struggle to understand each others' 'best qualities', via the Chinese tradition of the 'talk story'. She emphasises Tan's American narrators' process of becoming Chinese and discovering 'real China', and the significance of the ironic staging of these moments. Students will find this study both accessible and probing, and scholars will welcome its contribution to our understanding of a important figure in contemporary literature.

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This is the first study to cover Tan's entire oeuvre, and offers students and general readers an accessible, probing analysis of Tan's highly successful novels within broader debates about the representation of identity, history and reality.

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Produktdetails

• Contemporary World Writers
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9780719062070
• ISBN-10: 0719062071
• Artikelnr.: 21299369

Autorenporträt

Bella Adams is Lecturer in English Studies at Liverpool Hope University College

Inhaltsangabe

Series editor's foreword Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Chronology
1. Contexts and intertexts 2. The Joy Luck Club 3. The Kitchen God's Wife
4. The Hundred Secret Senses 5. The Bonesetter's Daughter 6. Critical
overview and conclusion Notes Select bibliography Index