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050 00 $aPS3570.A48$bZ515 2005
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100 1 $aAdams, Bella.
245 10 $aAmy Tan /$cBella Adams.
260 $aManchester ;$aNew York :$bManchester University Press ;$aNew York :$bDistributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave,$c2005.
300 $axi, 220 p. ;$c20 cm.
440 0 $aContemporary world writers
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [206]-217) and index.
505 0 $aContexts and intertexts -- The Joy Luck Club -- The kitchen god's wife -- The hundred secret senses -- The bonesetter's daughter -- Critical overview and conclusion.
520 $aThis volume is a comprehensive study of author Amy Tan's work, offering 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 narrator, and mainstream critics, this work 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 other's "best qualities" via the Chinese tradition of the "talk story". The author emphasizes Tan's American narrators' process of becoming Chinese and discovering "real China", and the significance of the ironic staging of these moments.
600 10 $aTan, Amy$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aChinese American women in literature.
650 0 $aChinese Americans in literature.
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast
776 08 $iOnline version:$aAdams, Bella.$tAmy Tan.$dManchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, c2005$w(OCoLC)607270958
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