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’...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleA Summary and Analysis of Amy Tan’s ‘Feathers from a Thousand Li Away’
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘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...
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