The theme of my course paper is Traditional culture, values, and rituals in Amy Tan' s novel " The Kitchen God's Wife"
The aim of my course work is getting used information about traditions, values in China through Amy Tan's works, especially her novel "The Kitchen God's Wife".
To reach the aim I put forward the following tasks:
to study Chinese -American traditional cultures, rituals by the novel "The Kitchen God's Wife"
to investigate attitude of Amy Tan to Chinese-Americal Culture
to analyse the novel "The Kitchen God's Wife" by Amy Tan
to consider superstition of author in her works
The subject of my course paper is Traditional culture, values, and rituals in China and America
The object of my course paper is Amy Tan's novel "The Kitchen God's Wife"
The course paper includes introduction, main part (consists of 4 parts), conclusion and list of references.
The main part includes Chinese cultural values in an American society, Amy Tan's career and legacy, The female identity in "The Kitchen God's Wife", Historical perspectives in Amy Tan's works.
Methods are used in the course work: historical, descriptive, comparative, biographical, analytical.
The theoretical value of the course paper is expressed with exact facts concerning to the author and her novel. By using methods, course work is tried to write widely, specific and easier, understandable for readers.
The practical value of the course paper is all adopted indates are written in order of the content. Traditions, culture, rituals of Chinese-American are confirmed there.
In April 1989, The Joy Luck Club made the New York Times' bestseller list, in which it remained for seven months. Tan turned into named a finalist for the National Book Award for fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award. She acquired the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award for fiction and the Commonwealth Club Gold Award. Paperback rights for the radical offered for extra than $1.23 million, and it's been translated into seventeen languages, which includes Chinese.
The extraordinary achievement of The Joy Luck Club and the strange rituals of being a celeb made it tough for Tan to pay attention on writing her 2d novel. At one time, writing it have become this sort of task that she broke out in hives. She started seven distinctive novels till she stumble on a solution: "When my mom read The Joy Luck Club,"5 Tan said, "she turned into usually complaining to me how she had to inform her pals that, no, she turned into now no longer the mom or any of the moms withinside the book. . . . So she got here to me at some point and she or he said, 'Next book, inform my authentic story.'"
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