Maxine Hong Kingston's the Woman Warrior A Casebook

Name: Maxine Hong Kingston's the Woman Warrior A Casebook
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ISBN: 9780195116557

ISBN-10: 0195116550

ISBN-13: 9780195116557

Edition: 1999

Authors: Sau-ling Cynthia Wong

List price: $67.00

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With the continued expansion of the literary canon, multicultural works of modern literary fiction and autobiography have assumed an increasing importance for students and scholars of American literature. This exciting new series assembles key documents and criticism concerning these works that have so recently become central components of the American literature curriculum. Each casebook will reprint documents relating to the work's historical context and reception, present thebest in critical essays, and when possible, feature an interview of the author. The series will provide, for the first time, an accessible forum in which readers can come to a fuller understanding of these…

Book details

List price: $67.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/21/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 8.11" wide x 5.39" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.528



Introduction




Setting Forth Issues and Debates


A Chinese Woman's Response to Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior



The Most Popular Book in China



Autobiography as Guided Chinatown Tour? Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior and the Chinese American Autobiography Controversy




Gender, Genre, and "Theory"


Filiality and Woman's Autobiographical Storytelling



No Lost Paradise: Social Gender and Symbolic Gender in the Writings of Maxine Hong Kingston




A Chinese American Tradition in an Era of "Multiculturalism"


The Woman Warrior versus the Chinaman Pacific: Must a Chinese American Critic Choose between Feminism and Heroism?



Chinese American Women Writers: The Tradition behind Maxine Hong Kingston



Intelligibility and Meaningfulness in Multicultural Literature in English (Excerpts)




An Interview


Susan Brownmiller Talks with Maxine Hong Kingston, Author of The Woman Warrior


Annotated Select Bibliography


Bibliography