Maxine Hong Kingston''s the Woman Warrior - A Casebook

Klappentext This casebook present a thought-provoking overview of the critical! debates surrounding Kingston's The Woman Warrior! perhaps the best known contemporary Asian American literary work and reputedly the most widely read title in American universities today. The essays deal with the reception of the work by various interpretive communities! canon formation! cultural authenticity! fictionality in autobiography! and feminist and poststructuralist subjectivity. In the context of increasing diversity in the US population and transnational cultural flows! the casebook helps scholars and students navigate complex questions on how a multi-situated work is to be read. The essays are preceded by insightful headnotes and are supplemented by Susan Brownmiller's 1977 interview with Kingston. Zusammenfassung An overview of critical issues surrounding Kingston's contemporary classic, such as reception by various interpretive communities, canon formation, cultural authenticity, fictionality in autobiography, and feminist and poststructuralist subjectivity, these eight critical essays are supplemented by headnotes, an interview and a bibliography.

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• Authors: Sau-Ling Cynthia Wong, Sau-Ling Cynthia (Professor Wong, Say-Ling Cynthia (Professor Wong
• Assisted by: Sau-Ling Cynthia Wong (Editor), Sau-Ling Cynthia (Professor Wong (Editor), Say-Ling Cynthia Wong (Editor), Wong Sau-ling Cynthia (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1999
• EAN: 9780195116540
• ISBN: 978-0-19-511654-0
• No. of pages: 199
• Series: Casebooks in Criticism; Casebooks in Contemporary Fict; Casebooks in Criticism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, American English, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form