Animalization and the Return to Nature

Introduction\nAmy Tan, born in 1952, is acclaimed for her lyrically written tales of feeling and conflicts in bring upese-American m separate-daughter relationship, in which generational and cultural divergence is ut almostlighted. Themes of spill and reconciliation, hope and failure, friendship and familial conflict, added with mystic oriental piquancy and heal power, have make Tans writing emblematic and well- befoold. pursuit the publication of The Joy portion Club (1989), The Kitchen Gods Wife (1991), Amy Tans leash legend The blow enigmatical Senses (1995) again enjoys a high popularity and evokes unafraid responses from two readers and critics.\n scorn the fact that The Hundred unfathomed Senses still exhibits Tans trademarks of a strong sense of place, a many-layered narrative, family secrets, generational conflict, Chinese lore and fib , unlike the previous both that are generally praised, this novel gets mixed opinions. Most reviewers receive the character ization of Kwan as the most original and best 1  among Tans works (Huntley 113). Some other critics, Michiko Katukani et al, criticize Kwans over-imaginary, sensational and superstitious beliefs in ghosts, reincarnation and fantasies (qtd. in Chen 120). Frank Chin asserts that Tan has made both Kwan and Changmian appear inferior for the draw a bead on of perpetuating and advancing the stereotype of a Chinese culture so foul... (and) perverse... (11). Sheng-Mei Ma quotes Marianna Torgovnicks Gone, Primitive: shoot Intellects to shed light on Amy Tan that Reified and atomized in political economy of advanced technology, the ˜Western self feels drained, in need of recharging or healing in a phantasmal sense, for which purpose the ˜primitive third arena cultures are deployed. Simultaneously label by its bestial atrocity ans spiritual transcendence, the primitive other is made to meld the physical with the metaphysical  (29). She claims that The Hundred Secret Senses adopts ...