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Record Nr.

UNINA9910151702203321

Autore

Moser Linda Trinh

Titolo

The woman warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston / / editors, Linda Trinh Moser & Kathryn West, Missouri State University, Springfield, Bellarmine University, Louisville

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ipswich, Massachusetts : , : Salem Press

Amenia, NY : , : Grey House Publishing, , [2016]

�2016

ISBN

1-68217-395-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 245 pages)

Collana

Critical Insights

Disciplina

973.04951

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

About this volume / Kathryn West -- On Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior / Linda Trinh Moser -- Maxine Hong Kingston : a biography / Kathryn West -- Conversation with Maxine Hong Kingston / Linda Trinh Moser -- Twentieth-century Chinese and US history / Kathryn West -- The Woman Warrior : an examination of genre / Rickie-Ann Legleitner -- "What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies?" : a transnational approach to Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior : memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts / Linda Trinh Moser -- Deliberately forgetting : the invention of unnamed ancestors in Maxine Hong Kingston and Maya Angelou / David Borman -- Kingston's The Woman Warrior in the context of life writing studies : an exploration of relational selfhood / Anne R�uggemeier -- "The words at my back" : Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior and the power of discourse / Lorna Martens -- The mother's mark on the daughter's speech in The Woman Warrior / Jeffrey Westover -- The role of talk-story in Maxine Hong Kingston's and Amy Tan's versions of the mother-daughter plot / Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw -- Diaspora and its others : The Woman Warrior and Southeast Asian diasporic literature / Christopher B. Patterson -- Creating meaning and self-affirmation through stories : existentialism and The Woman Warrior / Alex Pinnon -- Mythopoesis and cultural hybridity in Maxine Hong Kingston's The



Woman Warrior / Nelly Mok -- Truths and tellings : The Woman Warrior and Kingston's transformational genres of the real / Elizabeth Rodrigues -- Chronology of Maxine Hong Kingston's Life -- Works by Maxine Hong Kingston.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides readers with a collection of essays and in-depth discussions of Maxine Hong Kingston's novel, "The Woman Warrior". A chronology of Kingston's life, a complete list of Kingston's works and their original dates of publication, a general bibliography, a detailed paragraph on the volume's editor, notes on the individual chapter authors, and a subject index are also provided.