Womens Issues In Amy Tans The Joy Luck Club

Author : Gary Wiener
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780737739022
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Issues in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club written by Gary Wiener and published by Greenhaven Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents essays that examine women's issues in "The Joy Luck Club," discussing such topics as gender and ethnic identity, female empowerment, cultural conflict, and stereotypes about immigrant women.

Author : Gary Wiener
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780737738988
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Issues in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club written by Gary Wiener and published by Greenhaven Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents essays that examine women's issues in "The Joy Luck Club, " discussing such topics as gender and ethnic identity, female empowerment, cultural conflict, and stereotypes about immigrant women.

Author : Amy Tan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101502738
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Joy Luck Club written by Amy Tan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-09-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Joy Luck Club is one of my favorite books. From the moment I first started reading it, I knew it was going to be incredible. For me, it was one of those once-in-a-lifetime reading experiences that you cherish forever. It inspired me as a writer and still remains hugely inspirational.” —Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich Asians Amy Tan’s beloved, New York Times bestselling tale of mothers and daughters, now the focus of a new documentary Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir on Netflix Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. 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. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. "To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable." Forty years later the stories and history continue. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery.

Author : Amy Tan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780613979634
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moon Lady written by Amy Tan and published by . This book was released on 1995-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One rainy afternoon, Grandmother tells Maggie, Lily, and June the story of the long-ago night of the Moon Festival, when she encountered the Moon Lady, who grants the secret wishes of those who ask. Color illustrations throughout.

Author : Juliet Marillier
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1429913584
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dark Mirror written by Juliet Marillier and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE DARK MIRROR is the first book in Juliet Marillier's Bridei Chronicles. Bridei is a young nobleman fostered at the home of Broichan, one of the most powerful druids in the land. His earliest memories are not of hearth and kin but of this dark stranger who while not unkind is mysterious in his ways. The tasks that he sets Bridei appear to have one goal--to make him a vessel for some distant purpose. What that purpose is Bridei cannot fathom but he trusts the man and is content to learn all he can about the ways of the world. But something happens that will change Bridei's world forever...and possible wreck all of Broichan's plans. For Bridei finds a child on their doorstep on a bitter MidWinter Eve, a child seemingly abandoned by the fairie folk. It is uncommonly bad luck to have truck with the Fair Folk and all counsel the babe's death. But Bridei sees an old and precious magic at work here and heedless of the danger fights to save the child. Broichan relents but is wary. The two grow up together and as Bridei comes to manhood he sees the shy girl Tuala blossom into a beautiful woman. Broichan sees the same process and feels only danger...for Tuala could be a key part in Bridei's future...or could spell his doom. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Amy Ling
Publisher : Pergamon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Worlds written by Amy Ling and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1990 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 143811396X
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the publication of her first novel in 1989, The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan was immediately recognized as a major contemporary novelist. Her work has received a great deal of attention and acclaim from feminist critics, and is very much concerned w

Author : Amy Tan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110100715X
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kitchen God's Wife written by Amy Tan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-09-21 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Remarkable...mesmerizing...compelling.... An entire world unfolds in Tolstoyan tide of event and detail....Give yourself over to the world Ms. Tan creates for you." —The New York Times Book Review Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. And Winnie angrily determines that she must be the one to tell her daughter, Pearl, about the past—including the terrible truth even Helen does not know. And so begins Winnie's story of her life on a small island outside Shanghai in the 1920s, and other places in China during World War II, and traces the happy and desperate events that led to Winnie's coming to America in 1949. The Kitchen God's Wife is "a beautiful book" (Los Angeles Times) from the bestselling author of novels like The Joy Luck Club and The Backyard Bird Chronicles, and the memoir, Where the Past Begins.

Author : Lan Dong
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313355479
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Amy Tan written by Lan Dong and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-06-08 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential discussion of Amy Tan's life and works is a necessity for high school students and an enriching supplement for book club members. A tour-de-force in Asian American writing, Amy Tan has created works that are essential to high school and undergraduate literature classes and are often book club selections. Reading Amy Tan is a handy resource that offers both groups plot summaries of five of Tan's novels, as well as character and thematic analysis. The handbook also provides an overview of Tan's life and discusses how she emerged onto the scene as a novelist. Tan's typical themes, including Asian American issues and mother-daughter relationships, are examined in relation to today's current events and pop culture. Readers will also discover how and where they can find Tan on the Internet, and how the media has received her works. The "What Do I Read Next" chapter will help readers find other authors and works that deal with similar subjects. This handbook is an indispensable tool for both high school and public libraries.

Author : Amy Tan
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 1443410241
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Valley Of Amazement written by Amy Tan and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestseller The Valley of Amazement is an evocative epic of two women's intertwined fates and their search for identity—from the lavish parlors of Shanghai courtesans to the fog-shrouded mountains of a remote Chinese village. Shanghai, 1912. Violet Minturn is the daughter of the American madam of the city’s most exclusive courtesan house. But when the Ching dynasty is overturned, Violet is separated from her mother and forced to become a “virgin courtesan.” Spanning more than forty years and two continents, Amy Tan’s newest novel maps the lives of three generations of women—and the mystery of an evocative painting known as “The Valley of Amazement.” Moving from the collapse of China’s last imperial dynasty to the growth of anti-foreign sentiment and the inner workings of courtesan houses, The Valley of Amazement interweaves the story of Violet, a celebrated Shanghai courtesan on a quest for both love and identity, and her mother, Lucia, an American woman whose search for penance leads them to an unexpected reunion. The Valley of Amazement is a deeply moving narrative of family secrets, legacies, and the profound connections between mothers and daughters, reminiscent of the compelling territory Tan so expertly mapped in The Joy Luck Club. With her characteristic wisdom, grace, and humor, Tan conjures up a story of inherited trauma, desire, deception, and the power and stubbornness of love.