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Zusatztext Collects key documents and criticism on one of the most widely read literary texts in America's colleges and universities today...An excellent guide for the instructors and students alike who wish to have a quick tour of the critical landscape of this phenomenal work of Asian American literature and still capture some of the highlights of its vast scholarship. Klappentext Noted Asian Americanist Sau-ling C. Wong presents a thought-provoking overview of critical issues surrounding Kingson's 'contemporary classic', such as reception by various interpretive communities, canon formation, cultural authenticity, fictionality in autobiography, and feminist and poststructuralist subjectivity. Eight critical essays are supplemented by headnotes, an interview, and an annotated bibliography. Zusammenfassung An overview of critical issues surrounding Kingson's 'contemporary classic', such as reception by various interpretive communities, canon formation, cultural authenticity, fictionality in autobiography, and feminist and poststructuralist subjectivity. Eight critical essays are supplemented by headnotes, an interview, and an annotated bibliography. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part I: 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 Part II: 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 Part III: 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) Part IV: An Interview Susan Brownmiller Talks with Maxine Hong Kingston, Author of The Woman Warrior Annotated Select Bibliography Bibliography ...
