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With the publication of her first novel, ""The Joy Luck Club"", in 1989, Amy Tan was immediately recognized as a major contemporary novelist. Her work has received a great deal of attention and acclaim from feminist critics for its focus on issues of matrilineage and the ultimate triumph over female victimization. Her classic debut and the many novels that followed are unlocked and explored in this valuable resource, which provides helpful suggestions for students writing about Amy Tan.

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• Series Introduction(p. v)
• Volume Introduction(p. vii)
• How to Write a Good Essay(p. 1)
• How to Write about Amy Tan(p. 54)
• The Joy Luck Club(p. 76)
• The Kitchen God's Wife(p. 98)
• The Hundred Secret Senses(p. 120)
• The Bonesetter's Daughter(p. 140)
• Saving Fish from Drowning(p. 162)
• The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings(p. 186)
• Works for Children: The Moon Lady and The Chinese Siamese Cat(p. 210)
• Index(p. 227)

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With the publication of her first novel,The Joy Luck Club, in 1989, Amy Tan was immediately recognized as a major contemporary novelist. Her work has received a great deal of attention and acclaim from feminist critics for its focus on issues of matrilineage and the ultimate triumph over female victimization. Her classic debut and the many novels that followed are unlocked and explored in this valuable resource, which provides helpful suggestions for students writing about Amy Tan. Excerpted from Bloom's How to Write about Amy Tan by Kim E. Becnel All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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Kim E. Becnel received a Ph.D. in American literature from the University of South Carolina. She is the author of The Rise of Corporate Publishing and Its Effect on Authorship in Early Twentieth-Century America and two volumes, on F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, in the Bloom's How To Write About Literature series.
Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University and the author of more than 30 books, including Shelley's Mythmaking (1959), Blake's Apocalypse (1963), Yeats (1970), The Anxiety of Influence (1973), A Map of Misreading (1975), Kabbalah and Criticism (1975), Agon: Toward a Theory of Revisionism (1982), The American Religion (1992), The Western Canon (1994), Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (1998), How to Read and Why (2000), Hamlet: Poem Unlimited (2003), Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? (2004), and Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine (2005). In 1999, Professor Bloom received the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Gold Medal for criticism.