Maxine Hong Kingston's "The Woman Warrior": A Casebook

Abstract

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