Critical Insights: The Woman Warrior: Print Purchase Includes Free Online Access - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1682173941 ISBN 13: 9781682173947

Publisher: Salem Press, 2016

Synopsis

Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: Memoir of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is, according to the Modern Language Association, the most taught text on U.S. campuses, featured in Literature, Asian American Studies, Asian Studies, Women's Studies, and Anthropology, as well as other departments. Coinciding with the fortieth anniversary of publication of The Woman Warrior, this volume features international scholars revisiting long-standing debates about authenticity, genre, and identity in the text, as well as pushing forward into little explored contexts, such as transnationalism, mythopoesis, diaspora, and relational self-hood. In an exclusive interview with Kingston, the volume editors discuss the place of this groundbreaking text in American literature, understanding humanity in stories of the immigrant experience, and the debt the book owes to both Chinese and American literary traditions. Additional essays compare Kingston's masterwork to other key ethnic American writings by authors such as Amy Tan, Maya Angelou, and Lan Cao.

About this edition

• Publisher: Salem Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1682173941
• ISBN 13: 9781682173947
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 300
• Editor: Moser Linda Trinh