Amy Tan (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)

Contents......Page 6
Editor’s Note......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
(Mis) Reading The Joy Luck Club......Page 12
Daughter-Text/Mother-Text: Matrilineage in Amy Tan’s Joy Luck Club......Page 26
Patriarchy, Imperialism, and Knowledge in The Kitchen God’s Wife......Page 46
“Sugar Sisterhood”: Situating the Amy Tan Phenomenon......Page 58
A Womanist Production of Truths: The Use of Myths in Amy Tan......Page 94
Voice, Mind, Self: Mother-Daughter Relationships inAmy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God’s Wife......Page 104
Americanization and Hybridization in The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan......Page 122
Feng Shui, Astrology, and the Five Elements: Traditional Chinese Belief in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club......Page 130
The Semiotics of China Narratives in the Con/texts of Kingston and Tan......Page 150
“Chinese and Dogs” in Amy Tan’s The Hundred Secret Senses: Ethnicizing the Primitive à la New Age......Page 164
The Silencing Effect of Canonicity: Authorship and the Written Word in Amy Tan’s Novels......Page 178
Chronology......Page 194
Contributors......Page 198
Bibliography......Page 200
Acknowledgments......Page 206
Index......Page 208