Amy Tan (b. 1952)

A selective list of online literary criticism and lighter reading for Chinese American novelist Amy Tan, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars and articles published in peer-reviewed sources.


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introduction

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

Adams, Bella. "Representing history in Amy Tan's The Kitchen God's Wife," MELUS Summer 2003 [sub ser, questia]

Ma, Sheng-mei. "Chinese and Dogs" in Amy Tan's The Hundred Secret Senses: Ethnicizing the Primitive a la New Age. MELUS Spring 2001 [preview or purchase, for $42!, at jstor]

Xu, Ben. "Memory and the ethnic self: reading Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club." Special Issue: Varieties of Ethnic Criticism, MELUS Spring 1994 [preview or purchase, for $42!, at jstor]

"Amy Tan," Amy Ling, ed. Brief teaching guide, from textbook publisher Heath


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