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Chinese and Chinese-American Responses to Amy Tan
provided by UC Research Repository View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk CORE brought to you by “Airing Dirty Laundry”: Chinese and Chinese-American responses to Amy Tan A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in American Studies in the University of Canterbury by Yanyan Zhang University of Canterbury 2011 2 Table of Contents Acknowledgments.................................................................................................... 3 Abstract.................................................................................................................... 4 Chapter 1 Introduction..............................................................................................5 1.1. Search for Reconciliation...................................................................................5 1.2. “Airing Dirty Laundry”..................................................................................... 6 1.2.1. The Debate about the “Real” and the “Fake” in the United States.................. 6 1.2.2. Response to Amy Tan in China.................................................................... 17 1.3. The Structure of This Thesis............................................................................21 Chapter 2 Search for Reconciliation through Translation: Cooking a Bowl of Her Soup............................................................................................................ 24 2.1. The Meaning of Her Soup.............................................................................. -
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Scaffolded Reading ExperienceTM for Fostering Higher Order Reading and Comprehension Skills with “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan An SRETM Created by Ann Swanson Minnetonka High School Minnetonka, MN and Produced by Seward Incorporated with Funding from the U.S. Department of Education This SRETM and a number of other SRETMs are available online at www.OnlineReadingResources.com Table of Contents Table of Contents ............................................................................................... 1 Introduction ........................................................................................................ 2 Objectives ........................................................................................................... 3 Higher Order Thinking Skills ............................................................................. 3 Chronological List of Activities......................................................................... 4 Detailed Description of Activities ..................................................................... 5 Student Materials ............................................................................................... 9 Sources of the Reading Selection, Additional Readings, and Other Material ....................................................................................... 15 This Web site is funded by contracts and grants from the U.S. Department of Education, Grant No. ED-00-PO-3756/ EDOVAE-00-000046 under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. The content does not -
Women Like and Unlike Us: a Literary Analysis of The
WOMEN LIKE AND UNLIKE US: A LITERARY ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN IMMIGRANT MOTHERS AND THEIR BICULTURAL DAUGHTERS Davinia Yalimaiwai Submitted to the faculty of the University Graduate School in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts In the Department of English, Indiana University July 2010 Accepted by the Faculty of Indiana University, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts. _________________________________ Karen Kovacik, Ph.D., Chair _________________________________ Stephen Fox, Ph.D. Master’s Thesis Committee _________________________________ Robert Rebein, Ph.D. ii This thesis is dedicated to my mother, Rena Yalimaiwai. I am like and unlike you in so many ways. Your life is my inspiration. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I thank Jesus for love, life, and lengthy sentences that try to capture my thoughts down on the page. Thank you, Dr. Karen Kovacik for being the best advisor, chair, editor, confidant, and friend an island girl could ask for. To Drs. Stephen Fox and Robert Rebein, thank you for your insight and guidance. I thank Terry Kirts, Pat King, and all of the professors and faculty in the English department at IUPUI. To the IUPUI University Library – Reference librarian Jaena Hollingsworth, Circulation staff, as well as the Interlibrary Loan department, thank you all for helping me hunt down every book and article I needed. I thank Zac Holmes and the Housing and Residence Life for keeping a roof over my head during the crucial editing months of my thesis. To my family and friends that continued to pray for me during said months, I thank you. -
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TABLE OF CONTENT Unit 1 Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here? 2 2 Two Kinds 28 3 Goods Move. People Move. Ideas Move. And Cultures Change. 52 4 Professions for Women 72 5 Love Is a Fallacy 88 6 The Way to Rainy Mountain 110 7 Rewriting American History 130 8 The Merely Very Good 150 9 Al Gore’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech 172 10 The Bluest Eye 194 11 How News Becomes Opinion and Opinion Off-limits 212 12 The Indispensable Opposition 236 Recommended Reading 1 The Danger of a Single Story 258 2 Come Rain or Come Shine 272 3 You’ve Got to Find What You Love 300 4 Where Do We Go from Here? 316 5 An Iowa Christmas 340 6 Invisible Man 354 XI Contemporary College English 2 UNIT Two Kinds Amy Tan 1 My mother believed you could be anything you wanted to be in America. You could open a restaurant. You could work for the government and get good retirement. You could buy a house with almost no money down. You could become rich. You could become instantly famous. 2 “Of course you can be prodigy, too,” my mother told me when I was nine. “You can be best anything. What does Auntie Lindo know? Her daughter, she is only best tricky.” 3 America was where all my mother’s hopes lay. She had come here in 1949 after losing everything in China: her mother and father, her family home, her first husband, and two daughters, twin baby girls.