The Kitchen God's Wife

Traditional culture, values, and rituals in Amy Tan' s novel " The Kitchen God's Wife"

CONTENTS:

INTRODUCTION…………………………… 5
MAIN PART …………………………………8
1. Chinese cultural values in an American society…………..8
2. Amy Tan's career and legacy .................... …….12
3. The female identity in the author's works …................16
4. The characters and themes in the novel "The Kitchen God's wife"……………………………………………. 21
CONCLUSION ………………………………27
REFERENCES ……………………………….29

INTRODUCTION
Amy Tan's contribution in English literature.
Amy Tan¹ is high-quality acknowledged for her novels and kid's books, however she has additionally written numerous brief stories, posted each officially and informally. 
As with all fairy tales, The Joy Luck Club had an not likely beginning. Tan's commercial enterprise writing undertaking became so a success that she become capin a position to shop for her mom a house. Yet, regardless of her happiness at being capable of offer for her mom, she turned into now no longer fulfilled in her work. "I measured my fulfillment through what number of customers I had and what number of billable hours I had," she advised interviewer Jonathan Mandell. Secretly, Tan² had continually desired to put in writing fiction, however she had thrown herself so absolutely into her freelance profession that she spent extra than 90 hours every week at it. Early in 1985, Tan started out to fear that she turned into devoting an excessive amount of time to her enterprise and commenced searching out a change. She determined to pressure herself to do some other type of writing. The turning factor got here a yr later, whilst Tan's mom turned into hospitalized after a coronary heart attack. "I determined that if my mom changed into okay, I'd get to realize her. I'd take her to China, and I'd write a book."³ Her best preceding forays into fiction were "excursion letters written to buddies wherein I attempted to create little memories primarily based totally on matters that took place even as I changed into away," ⁴she noted.