Amy Tan (1952- )

A selective list of online literary criticism and lighter reading for Chinese American novelist Amy Tan, including signed articles by recognized scholars, peer and editor reviewed articles, and web sites that follow MLA guidelines for web pages.

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literary criticism

Adams, Bella. "Representing history in Amy Tan's The Kitchen God's Wife," Melus Summer 2003 [Questia, subscription service]

Ma, Sheng-mei. "Chinese and Dogs" in Amy Tan's The Hundred Secret Senses: Ethnicizing the Primitive a la New Age. Melus Spring 2001 [first page of article only]

Mistri, Zenobia. "Discovering the ethnic name and the genealogical tie in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club." Studies in Short Fiction Summer 1998

Hamilton, Patricia L. "Feng Shui, Astrology, and the Five Elements: Traditional Chinese Belief in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club." Melus Summer 1999 [Questia, subscription service]

Xu, Ben. "Memory and the ethnic self: reading Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club." Special Issue: Varieties of Ethnic Criticism, Melus Spring 1994 [first page of article only]

An overview of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, from a class at City U of New York

An overview and teaching stragegies for Amy Tan from textbook publisher Heath

Web page by an Amy Tan fan with links to popular newspaper articles and interviews with Amy Tan

Adams, Bella. An introduction to Amy Tan from the Literary Encyclopedia, June 2004 [subscription service]

A New York Times feature page on Amy Tan [registration required]

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