Amy Tan
by Bella Adams
This 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.
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Amy Tan
2005, Manchester University Press, Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave
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0719062063 9780719062063
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [170]-217) and index
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