Amy Tan
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Citations From the ERIC Database
AN: ED454140
Title: Amy Tan
Title: Amy Tan
Title: The joy luck club: a unit plan
Title: The broom closet: secret meanings of domesticity in postfeminist novels by Louise Erdrich, Mary Gordon, Toni Morrison, Marge Piercy, Jane Smiley, and Amy Tan
Title: In her mother's house: the politics of Asian American mother-daughter writing
Title: The NEAP guide to The Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan):NEAP guide
Title: Amy Tan: a critical companion
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AU: Abbey,-Cherie-D., ed.
TI: Biography Today: Profiles of People of Interest to Young Readers. Author Series, Volume 9.
PY: 2001
AV: Omnigraphics, Inc., 615 Griswold Street, Detroit, MI 48226; Tel: 800-234-1340 (Toll Free); Web site
PR: EDRS Price MF01/PC09 Plus Postage.
DL: http://www.edrs.com/members/sp.cfm?AN=ED454140
DEM: *Adolescent-Literature; *Authors-; *Childrens-Literature
DER: Biographies-; Elementary-Secondary-Education; Language-Arts; Popular-Culture; Profiles-; Student-Interests; Supplementary-Reading-Materials
AB: This book presents biographical profiles of 10 authors of interest to readers ages 9 and above and was created to appeal to young readers in a format they can enjoy and readily understand. Biographies were prepared after extensive research, and each volume contains a cumulative index, a general index, a place of birth index, and a birthday index. Each profile provides at least one picture of the individual and information on birth, youth, early memories, education, first jobs, marriage and family, career highlights, memorable experiences, hobbies, and honors and awards. All entries end with a list of easily accessible sources designed to lead the student to further reading on the individual. Obituary entries are also included, written to provide a perspective on the individual's entire career. Obituaries are clearly marked in both the table of contents and at the beginning of the entry. The following authors appear in Volume 9: Robb Armstrong (1962-); Cherie Bennett (1960-); Bruce Coville (1950-); Rosa Guy (1925-); Harper Lee (1926-); Irene Gut Opdyke (1922-); Philip Pullman (1946-); Jon Scieszka (1954-); Amy Tan (1952-); and Joss Whedon (1965-). (BT)
AN: ED436621
AU: Leonard,-George-J., ed.; Rosenblum,-Diane, ed.; Leonard,-Robert, ed.; Feldman,-Amy, ed.; Kohn,-Stefanie, ed.
TI: The Asian Pacific Heritage. A Companion to Literature and Arts. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, Volume 2109.
PY: 1999
AV: Garland Publishing, c/o Taylor & Francis, Inc., 47 Runway Road, Levittown, PA 19057-4700 ($100). Tel: 215-269-0400; Tel: 800-821-8312 (Toll free); Fax: 215-269-0363.
PR: Document Not Available from EDRS.
DEM: *Asian-Americans; *Asian-History; *Cultural-Influences; *Pacific-Americans
DER: Cultural-Background; Ethnicity-; Family-Sociological-Unit; Fine-Arts; Food-; Immigration-; Literature-; Minority-Groups; Theater-Arts
AB: This book presents a collection of articles on the diverse history of Asian Pacific American heritage. Part 1, "Fundamentals," includes "Reading Asian Characters in English" (Leonard); (2) "Characters: The Asian Ideogram Systems" (Leonard); (3) "Asian Naming Systems" (Leonard); and (4) "The 'Model Minority' Discourse" (Niiya). Part 2, "The Family and the Self," includes (5) "Confucius and the Asian American Family" (Leonard); (6) "My Grandfather's Concubines: A First-Generation Woman Remembers Life in Peking" (Isham); (7) "Japanese American Life in the Twentieth Century"(Yamanaka); (8) "The Nisei Go to War" (Niiya); (9) "Being Nisei" (Niiya); (10) "Being Sansei" (Niiya); (11) "First-Generation Memories"(Millard and Millard); (12) "Filipino American Values"(Gonzales); (13) "Korean American One-Point-Five" (Lee); and (14) "The Lizard Hunter" (Tran). Part 3, "Roots, Traditions, and Asian Pacific Life: The Old Country and its Cultural Literacy," includes (15) "Food and Ethnic Identity" (Leonard and Saliba) (16) "Chinese Food" (Scott); (17) "Japanese Food" (Scott); (18) "Filipino Food" (Romero, Gonzales, Millard, and Millard); (19) "Korean Food" (Lee); (20) "Vietnamese Food" (Chung); (21) "Southeast Asian Food: The Durian and Beyond (Leonard and Saliba); (22) "Tea" (Okakura); (23) "Fengshui, Chinese Medicine, and Correlative Thinking" (Scott); (24) "Lunar New Year, the Moon Lady, and the Moon Festival" (Isham); (25) "Obon Season in Little Tokyo" (Niiya); (26) "Filipinos and Religion" (Millard, Millard, and Castillo-Pruden); and (27) "Maoism and Surviving the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" (Isham). Part 4, "Asian Pacific Culture: Diaspora," includes: (28) "The Chinese Diaspora" (Hu-DeHart); (29) "The Arrival of the Asians in California" (Chin); (30) "The Early History of Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, and Filipinos in America" (Niiya); and (31) "Chinatown, 1899" (Higgins). Part 5, "Literature," includes (32) "Dialect, Standard, and Slang" (Leonard); (33) "Dialect Literature in America" (Kohn); (34) "Roots" (Scott); (35) "Roots" (Leonard); (36) "The Beginnings of Chinese Literature in America" (Leonard and Leonard); (37) "D.T. Suzuki and the Creation of Japanese American Zen" (Leonard); (38) "Asian American Literary Pioneers" (Chan and Leonard); (39) "Asian American Literature" (Solberg); (40) "First-Generation Writings" (Solberg); (41) "Asian American Autobiographical Tradition" (Niiya); (42) "Frank Chin" (Chan); (43) "Maxine Hong Kingston" (Ling and Chu); (44) "A Reader's Guide to Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club" (Isham); (45) "David Henry Hwang" (Chu); (46) "A Reader's Guide to Cebu and Dark Blue Suit Based on Interviews with its Author, Peter Bacho" (Leonard and Rosenblum); (47) "Jessica Hagedorn" (Jenkins); (48) "Lawson Fusao Inada" (Chan and Leonard); (49) "Garret Hongo" (Stern); (50) "The Literature of Korean America" (Solberg); (51) "The Korean American Novel" (Hahn); (52) "Discovering Korean American Literature" (Solberg); (53) "Clay Walls" (Solberg); and (54) "Cathy Song and the Korean American Experience in Poetry" (Solberg). Part 6, "The Arts," includes (55) "Chinese Opera" (Scott); (56) "Bernardo Bertolucci and the Westernization of The Last Emperor" (Leonard); (57) "A Viewer's Guide to Wayne Wang's Dim Sum" (Leonard); (58) "Asian American Visual Arts" (Drescher); (59) "Story Cloths" (Leonard); (60) "Toi Hoang" (Feldman); and (61) "First-Generation Painting" (Kelley). The two appendixes present an Asian Pacific chronology and statistics and a cultural lexicon for Asian Pacific Studies. (SM)
AN: ED418409
AU: Kramer,-Barbara
TI: Amy Tan, Author of "The Joy Luck Club." (People to Know).
PY: 1996
AV: Enslow Publishers, Inc., 44 Fadem Road, Box 699, Springfield, NJ 07081 ($18.95).
PR: Document Not Available from EDRS.
DEM: *Authors-; *Biographies-; *Cultural-Context; *Females-; *Individual-Development; *Literature-Appreciation
DER: Childrens-Literature; Chinese-Americans; Family-Characteristics; Fiction-; Professional-Development; Secondary-Education
AB: This book, aimed at the young reader, explores the life and career of the Chinese-American author, Amy Tan. It follows her childhood in Oakland, California, through her struggle to accept her Chinese heritage, through her education and marriage to a non-Chinese man, to her early work as a business writer, and finally to her great success as a writer of novels and other fiction such as children's books. The book includes chapter notes and provides a chronology of important events in Amy Tan's life, both personal and professional. It concludes with a list of books for further reading about Amy Tan. (NKA)
AN: ED398098
AU: Maitino,-John-R., ed.; Peck,-David-R., ed.
TI: Teaching American Ethnic Literatures: Nineteen Essays.
PY: 1996
AV: University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM ($22.50).
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DEM: *American-Studies; *Asian-Americans; *Blacks-; *Ethnic-Groups; *Hispanic-Americans; *Indians-; *Literature-
DER: Cultural-Pluralism; Higher-Education; Latin-American-Literature; Literary-Criticism; Multicultural-Education; United-States-Literature
AB: This book features scholarly criticism on works by 19 famous authors, such as N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Amy Tan, and more. These authors' works are widely taught, but little critical comment is yet available about them. Written specifically for instructors in literature courses, these essays focus on longer works of prose in each of the four major ethnic literatures of the United States: Native American, Mexican American, Asian American, and African American. The Native American section includes: (1) "Indian Preservation: Teaching "Black Elk Speaks" (G. Thomas Couser); (2) "Beauty Before Me: Notes on House Made of Dawn'" by N. Scott Momaday (Helen Jaskoski); (3) "Crying for Vision in James Welch's Winter in the Blood'" (William W. Thackeray); (4) "Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony: From Alienation to Reciprocity'" (Norma C. Wilson); and (5) "Building Bridges: Crossing the Waters to a Love Medicine'" by Louise Erdrich (John Purdy). The African American section contains: (1) "Ethnic and Gender Identity in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God'" (Susan Meisenhelder); (2) "Racial Discourse and Self-Creation: Richard Wright's Black Boy'" (Yoshinobu Hakutani); (3) "'Measure Him Right': An Analysis of Lorraine Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun'" (Jeanne-Marie A. Miller); (4) "'Closer to the Edge': Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon'" (Linda Wagner-Martin); and (5) "A Fairy-Tale Life: The Making of Celie in Alice Walker's The Color Purple'" (Daniel W. Ross). The Mexican American section includes: (1) "Learning to Read (and/in) Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima'" (Juan Bruce-Novoa); (2) "Chicano Theatre Reaches the Professional Stage: Luis Valdez's Zoot Suit'" (Elizabeth Ramirez); (3) "Entering The House on Mango Street'" by Sandra Cisneros (Julian Olivares); and (4) "Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory' and New Perspectives on Ethnic Autobiography" (Antonio C. Marquez). The Asian American section contains: (1) "Searching for the Heart of 'America'" by Carlos Bulosan (E. San Juan, Jr.); (2) "'Growing with Stories': Chinese American Identities, Textual Identities" (Maxine Hong Kingston); (3) "Experiential Approaches to Teaching Joy Kogawa's Obasan'" (Mitsuye Yamada); (4) "Reading Between the Syllables: Hisaye Yamamoto's Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories'" (King-Kok Cheung); and (5) Swan-Feather Mothers and Coca-Cola Daughters: Teaching Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club'" (Wendy Ho). Each essay is accompanied by bibliographies and pedagogical strategies for helping students appreciate texts from a variety of cultures and traditions. (EH)
AN: ED389795
AU: Marvis,-Barbara-J.
TI: Contemporary American Success Stories. Famous People of Asian Ancestry. Volume IV. A Mitchell Lane Multicultural Biography Series.
PY: 1995
AV: Mitchell Lane Publishers, P.O. Box 200, Childs, MD 21916-0200 (hardback: ISBN-1-883845-03-3, $15.95; paperback: ISBN-1-883845-09-2).
NT: For volumes I-V in this series, see UD 030 711-715 respectively.
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DEM: *Asian-Americans; *Biographies-; *Cultural-Differences; *High-Achievement; *Life-Events; *Role-Models
DER: Childrens-Literature; Cultural-Background; Elementary-Education; Ethnic-Groups; Minority-Groups; Profiles-; Racial-Discrimination
AB: This collection of biographical sketches presents role models of Asian American descent for American children. As part of the five-volume series written at a reading level for grades five to six, the success stories of the individuals profiled in this volume, and who have encountered racial prejudice and discrimination, remind all of the unique contributions that Asian Americans have made to the United States. Volume IV includes sketches of: (1) Martin Yan, Chinese American chef and television personality; (2) Mine Okubo, Japanese American artist; (3) Rocky Aoki, Japanese American founder of the Benihana restaurant chain; (4) Amy Tan, Chinese American novelist; and (5) Dustin Nguyen, Vietnamese American actor. A glossary provides definitions to supplement the biographies. (SLD)
AN: ED379597
AU: Flood,-James; and-others
TI: Teacher Book Clubs: A Study of Teachers' and Student Teachers' Participation in Contemporary Multicultural Fiction Literature Discussion Groups. Reading Research Project No. 22.
CS: National Reading Research Center, Athens, GA.; National Reading Research Center, College Park, MD.
PY: 1994
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DEM: *Discussion-Groups; *Multicultural-Education; *Student-Attitudes; *Teacher-Attitudes
DER: Comparative-Analysis; Fiction-; Higher-Education; Teacher-Education
AB: Over a 2-year period, several teacher book clubs were studied. Teachers' and preservice teachers' responses to a series of texts that focused on multiculturalism in American society were examined. Twelve elementary school teachers, representing four ethnic groups (European American, Asian American, African American, and Hispanic), volunteered to participate in the book club. Ten preservice teachers, representing four ethnic groups, participated in the preservice teachers' reading discussion group as part of a teacher education course. Teachers read and discussed a collection of multicultural titles including works of Sandra Cisneros, Amy Tan, and Toni Morrison. Sessions were videotaped and analyzed using the Flood and Lapp Coding System. Results indicated different patterns for teachers and student teachers. Student teachers expanded and responded to conversational utterances more often than did teachers. Teachers, however, asked and answered more questions, redirected the discussion and retold parts of the stories more often than student teachers. Both groups believed that they grew in their understanding of sensitivity toward multiculturalism. By talking about the feelings, thoughts and actions of literary characters, participants gained insights about cultures of which they had previously had limited knowledge. (Contains the coding system, 7 tables, 8 figures of data, and 27 references.) (Author/TB)
AN: ED379394
AU: Ng,-Franklin, ed.; and-others
TI: New Visions in Asian American Studies. Diversity, Community, Power.
PY: 1994
AV: Washington State University Press, Pullman, WA 99164-5910.
NT: Essays from the National Conference of the Association for Asian American Studies (8th, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 29-31, 1991).
PR: Document Not Available from EDRS.
DEM: *Asian-Americans; *Cultural-Awareness; *Educational-History; *Literature-; *Minority-Groups; *Racial-Differences
DER: Asian-Studies; Elementary-Secondary-Education; Ethnic-Groups; Higher-Education; Sex-Differences; Social-Class; Social-Science-Research; United-States-History; Womens-Studies
AB: This collection of essays from the eighth national conference of the Association for Asian American Studies is organized into four sections: history and women's studies; social science; literature; and Hawaiian studies. The following papers are included: (1) "History and Women Studies" (Yung); (2) "From Old to New Plantations: Labor's Growing Pains" (McElrath); (3) "Economic and Ethnic Politics in Monterey Park" (Fong); (4) "Hmong Life Stories" (Chan); (5) "A Selected Bibliography and List of Films on the Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian Experience in Southeast Asia and the United States" (Chan); (6) "Attitudes toward Interracial and Interethnic Relationships and Intermarriage among Korean Americans: The Intersections of Race, Gender, and Class Inequality" (Pang); (7) "Asian American Studies: Contemporary Social Science Views" (Fugita); (8) "When Multiethnic Societies Work: Notes on an Ethnic Relations Model in Balance" (Kent); (9) "Nisei Attitudes toward Japanese Language Schools: Personal Accounts Shed Light on the Controversy" (Tamura); (10) "Japanese Americans: The Formation and Transformation of an Ethnic Group" (Spickard); (11) "Sansei Radicals: Identity and Strategy of Japanese American Student Activists in Hawaii" (Miyazaki); (12) "Value Differences as Reflected in Interactions in a Cambodian and an American First Grade Class" (Lau and Longmire); (13) "Asian American Literature" (Kim); (14) "Localizing Discourse" (Kosasa-Terry); (14) "Artistic and Cultural Mothering in the Poetics of Cathy Song" (Cobb); (15) "Cultural Conflict/Feminist Resolution in Amy Tan's 'The Joy Luck Club'" (Bow); (16) "Hawai'i and Native Hawaiians" (Ng); (17) "'Au'a 'ia" to "Mele o Kaho'olawe": Voices of Power and Vision" (McGregor); (18) "Pride Endures" (ApoLiona); and (19) "Native Hawaiians: A Selected Basic List" (Tachihata). (SLD)
AN: ED355542
AU: Bannister,-Linda
TI: Three Women Revise: What Morrison, Oates, and Tan Can Teach Our Students about Revision.
PY: 1993
NT: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (44th, San Diego, CA, March 31-April 3, 1993).
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DEM: *Feminism-; *Revision-Written-Composition; *Writing-Strategies
DER: Higher-Education; Writing-Instruction
AB: In the act of revision a writer seeks what Joyce Carol Oates calls "points of invisibility": things not in the text that should be and things in the text that should not be. Composing process research on revision has articulated several aspects of the revising process, but study of creative writers' composing habits remains an under-utilized source of advice for student writers. Toni Morrison, Amy Tan and Oates, three writers whose revision stories are particularly convincing, speak of writing and writing practice in ways that composition theorists typically refer to as feminine. All three mention questions and answers, dialog, and connection as a means to discover what they want to say. So heavily do Morrison, Oates, and Tan rely on the dialogic exchange among text, character and reader, that they would perhaps be unable to write without it. The body of feminist theory that points at dialog, "connected knowing," and interrelationship as distinctly female ways of knowing reflects these writers' composing processes and also suggests a model of revision that creates opportunities for student writers to converse with their writing. This conversation-based heuristic asks a writer to read her text as dialog, to conflate writing, reading, and speaking, so that the text becomes newly visible and therefore changeable. Such a heuristic can be applied to a text as a whole, to the characters or ideas that live in that text, or to the text's intended audience. (A sample conversation-based heuristic handout is attached. (Contains 30 references.) (SAM)
AN: EJ474221
AU: Davis,-Emory
TI: An Interview with Amy Tan: Fiction--"The Beast That Roams."
PY: 1990
SO: Writing-on-the-Edge; v1 n2 p97-111 Spr 1990
DEM: *Authors-; *Writing-Processes; *Writing-Teachers
DER: Autobiographies-; Fiction-; Higher-Education; Interviews-
AB: Presents an interview with Amy Tan. Reveals how she became a writer and discusses her views on teachers of writing, about the book "The Joy Luck Club," about autobiography and fiction, and about writing and rewriting or the creative process itself. (NH)
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