‘Feathers from a Thousand Li Away’ is a short one-page parable which acts as preface to Amy Tan’s 1989 novel The Joy Luck Club. The novel as a whole is a series of interlinked stories about the daughters of Chinese immigrants who came to America, hoping to give their daughters […]
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A Summary and Analysis of Amy Tan’s ‘Fish Cheeks’
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Fish Cheeks’ is a short autobiographical narrative by the American writer Amy Tan (born 1952). Tan is probably best-known for The Joy Luck Club, her 1989 novel containing a series of interwoven short stories told by a number of Chinese-American women who are members […]
A Summary and Analysis of Amy Tan’s ‘Mother Tongue’
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Mother Tongue’ is an essay by Amy Tan, an American author who was born to Chinese immigrants in 1952. Tan wrote ‘Mother Tongue’ in 1990, a year after her novel The Joy Luck Club was a runaway success. In the essay, Tan discusses her […]
A Summary and Analysis of Amy Tan’s ‘The Voice from the Wall’
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The Voice from the Wall’ is a story from Amy Tan’s 1989 novel The Joy Luck Club. The story is narrated by Lena St. Clair, the daughter of a Chinese mother and an Anglo-Irish father living in California. Before we offer an analysis of […]
A Summary and Analysis of Amy Tan’s ‘Half and Half’
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Half and Half’ is one of the stories from Amy Tan’s 1989 novel The Joy Luck Club. Told by a Chinese American woman named Rose Hsu Jordan, ‘Half and Half’ incorporates two stories from the narrator’s life: the breakdown of her marriage to an […]