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Amy Tan Seated at FDU Literary Society
No full textAmy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club, signing books at the FDU Literary Society
Amy Tan at FDU Literary Society
No full textAmy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club, speaking at the FDU Literary Society
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The Joy Luck Club /
No full text"In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan's debut novel--now widely regarded as a modern classic--examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between these four women and their American-born daughters."--Publisher's description
Amy Tan Signing Books at FDU Literary Society
No full textAmy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club, signing books at the FDU Literary Society
Adapting Traditional Chinese Culture in Amy Tan´s The Joy Luck Club
No full textAmy Tan's first novel, The Joy Luck Club (1989), is considered to be her most successful work and has received extensive attention from critics. In many ways, she has been seen as representative of Chinese-American authors, perhaps because she uses a large number of Chinese elements in her work while maintaining a perspective that is distinctly American. This paradox is one that Tan both works within and objects to. She once wrote“I would have to say I am a American writer, I believe that what I write is American fiction”(Darraj 66) and yet has persistently populated her novels with Chinese characters and located large sections of them in China. This essay analyzes some of the Chinese elements that appear in The Joy Luck Club in an attempt to evaluate the author from both sides of the above paradox. It opens with a short introduction to Amy Tan and the background to The Joy Luck Club. From there it turns to the contextualization of The Joy Luck Club within traditional China culture. This section, the main body of the essay, is divided into two parts: firstly, Tan's use of Feng Shui, secondly, her understanding of Wu Xing. The essay turns to an examination of Tan's adaptation of a number of traditional Chinese folk tales, showing how she sometimes ingeniously rewrites them to suit an American context. It is therefore possible to conclude that by creatively mainpulating elements of Chinese culture, Tan consciously represents and misrepresents her own Chinese past and that of her characters
FIT Authors Talks: "The Miracles" with Amy Lemmon
No full textProfessor and Chair of English and Communication Studies Amy Lemmon reads from and talks about her book The Miracles.With lyricism and grace, Amy Lemmon gives us a worldview to live by. The all-too-familiar “wear of sorrow’s rub” is presented alongside the world’s miracles, including the author’s two children. Fearlessly bridging the gap between tradition and artistic innovation, the author moves us forward with her into the unknown, to entertain new relationships with herself, her children, and the world
American Women Writers: Amy M. Clark
No full textA 2011 conversation with the author Amy M. Clark about her life and the inspiration for her work
Relocating Maternal Subjectivity: Storytelling and Mother-Daughter Voices in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
No full textSince the advent of "feminist recuperation of mother" commencing in the 1970s, one of the heated inquiries underlying the development of feminist maternal scholarship is a preoccupation with maternal subjectivity and the mother-daughter relationship initiated by one of the keynote feminist maternal theorists, Marianne Hirsch, in the late 1980s. In tandem with such a feminist concern, this paper seeks to investigate how maternal subjectivity, filtered through a psychoanalytic feminist contention of "intersubjectivity" as elucidated in Jessica Benjamin's The Bonds of Love, can possibly be envisioned, articulated and synthesized in the mother-daughter voices delineated in the literary creativity of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club. Locating Tan's The Joy Luck Club within a feminist matrilinealism in connection with a Chinese American matrilineal tradition and a white Western matrilineal discourse, I attempt to demonstrate the resourcefulness of the "Amy Tan phenomenon" in providing an alternative to a feminist approach to maternal subjectivity. Viewing the use of storytelling between mothers and daughters in Tan's The Joy Luck Club as a trope for matrilineal reclamation, I also interpret it as a site of substantiating Benjamin's intersubjective theory. While Benjamin's theoretical premises illuminate an interactive and constructive reading of Tan's text, I also argue that the mother-daughter stories and voices, as mapped out in Tan's experimentation with femininity and creativity, re-examine, expand and even challenge Benjamin's theoretical topos in The Bonds of Love
The Representation of Amy Tan\u27s Background in Her Novel The Joy Luck Club
Full text linkDiscourse stylistics focuses upon the largely implicit and highly ideological ‘background’ of the text. Mind style that is one of the traits of stylistics is going to be taken into account of doing the analysis since this research aims to find out about how the mind style of Amy Tan is shaped by her background in her way of writing and producing the novel The Joy Luck Club. The term ‘mind style’ (Leech and Short, 2007) is particularly appropriate where the choices made are consistent through a text or part of a text. This research is questioned whether or not Amy Tan’s Chinese background have influenced the novelist’s style as represented in her novel, The Joy Luck Club. This research describes the novel with a focus on the characters’ mind style in a stylistic and narrative approach. This research aims to attain the influence from the backgrounds of the novelist and the way the background affect the novelist’s style in producing literary work. The descriptions and explanations of scrutinizing the novel are hoped to provide examples of doing discourse stylistics to literary works. The specific use of Chinese words, the repetition use of pronouns, the presentation of Chinese superstitions have put so much contributions in shaping Amy Tan’s style in her works. Through her literary works, the novelist is able to show her readers linguistic journey through her wordplay style
Dr. Amy Howard – Faculty Author Interview
No full textAmy Howard, executive director of the Bonner Center for Civic Engagement and associated faculty in American studies, discusses her new book, More Than Shelter: Activism and Community in San Francisco Public Housing, published recently by the University of Minnesota Press. Her research and book looks closely at three public housing projects in San Francisco and brings to light the dramatic measures tenants have taken to create communities that mattered to them
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