A guide to reading and understanding three novels written by Asian American writer Amy Tan that includes information on the characters, narrative strategies, plot development, literary devices, setting, and major themes of each novel.
A guide to reading and understanding three novels written by Asian American writer Amy Tan that includes information on the characters, narrative strategies, plot development, literary devices, setting, and major themes of each novel.
This significant new book is an interdisciplinary study of violence, its narrativisation and affects, of collective identity formation, national, ethnic and racial. It studies the ways in which these are gendered by women who are subjected to violence, who survive these conflict…
This significant new book is an interdisciplinary study of violence, its narrativisation and affects, of collective identity formation, national, ethnic and racial. It studies the ways in which these are gendered by women who are subjected to violence, who survive these conflict…
"The study is focused around widely-read novels written by women authors over the last 30 or so years. Each of these novels revisits sites of extreme or intense violence in the lives both of its protagonists and of the collective to which they belong in the process of defining t…