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Maxine Hong Kingston: A Critical Companion
by E. D. Huntley. 212 pgs.

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Series Foreword

Acknowledgments

1: The Life of Maxine Hong Kingston

2: Maxine Hong Kingston and the Asian American Literary Tradition

3: The Woman Warrior

4: China Men (1980)

5: Tripmaster Monkey

Bibliography

Index
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Asian American Novelists: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Maxine Hong Kingston (1940-)" begins on p. 138)
by Emmanuel S. Nelson. 424 pgs.

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As a distinct area of literary study, Asian American literature now enjoys a level of critical recognition that was unimaginable when academic interest in the field began modestly some 25 years ago. Part of this recognition stems from the increasing contributions of Asian American novelists, whose works continue to capture growing levels of popular attention. This reference book provides alphabetically arranged entries for 70 Asian American novelists. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides a short biography, a discussion of major works and themes, an overview of the novelist's critical reception, and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. In addition, the volume concludes with a selected, general bibliography.

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Preface

Meena Alexander: (1951- )

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Himani Bannerji: (1942- )

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Susham Bedi: (1945- )

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William Peter Blatty: (1928- )

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Vance Bourjaily: (1922- )

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Cecilia Manguerra Brainard: (1947- )

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Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: (1951-1982)

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Diana Chang: (1934- )

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Evelina Chao: (1949- )

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Frank Chin: (1940- )

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Sook Nyul Choi: (1937- )

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Susan Choi: (1969- )

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Denise Chong: (1953- )

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Louis Hing Chu: (1915-1970)

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Richard Crasta (also Avatar Prabhu): (1952- )

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Kiran Desai: (1972- )

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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: (1956- )

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Winnifred Eaton: (1875-1954)

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Indira Ganesan: (1960- )

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Stephen Gill: (1932- )

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Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn: (1949- )

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Chuang Hua: (?- )

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Cynthia Kadohata: (1956- )

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Younghill Kang: (1903-1972)

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Richard E. Kim: (1937- )

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Maxine Hong Kingston: (1940-)

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Bharti Kirchner: (1940- )

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Joy Kogawa: (1935- )

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Alex Kuo: (1939- )

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Helena Kuo: (1911- )

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Chang-Rae Lee: (1965- )

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C. Y. Lee: (1917- )

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Gus Lee: (1946- )

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Marie G. Lee: (1964- )

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Sky Lee: (1952- )

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Adet Lin (also Tan Yun): (1923-1971)

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Steven C. Lo: (1949- )

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Bette Bao Lord: (1938- )

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Anchee Min: (1957- )

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Rohinton Mistry: (1952- )

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Kyoko Mori: (1957- )

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Toshio Mori: (1910-1980)

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Bharati Mukherjee: (1940- )

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Milton Murayama: (1923- )

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Kirin Narayan: (1959- )

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Fae Myenne Ng: (1957- )

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Mei Ng: (1967- )

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Hualing Nieh: (1925- )

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Sanjay Nigam: (1959- )

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John Okada: (1923-1971)

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Michael Ondaatje: (1943- )

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Nahid Rachlin: (1947- )

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Balachandra Rajan: (1920- )

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Ninotchka Rosca: (1946- )

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Patsy Sumie Saiki: (1915- )

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Bienvenicio N. Santos: (1911-1996)

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Lisa Lenine See: (1955- )

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Shyam Selvadurai: (1965- )

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Vikram Seth: (1952- )

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S. Shankar: (1962- )

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Bapsi Sidhwa: (1938- )

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Mai-Mai Sze: (1905- )

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Lin Tai-Yi (also Anor Lin or Lin Wu-Shuang): (1926- )

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Amy Tan: (1952- )

Linda Ty-Casper: (1931- )

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Holly Uyemoto: (1970- )

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Jade Snow Wong: (1922- )

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Shawn Wong: (1949- )

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Lois-Ann Yamanaka: (1961- )

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Karen Tei Yamashita: (1951- )

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Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Editor and Contributors
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Asian American Women Writers ("Maxine Hong Kingston, b. 1940" begins on p. 37)
by Harold Bloom. 142 pgs.

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Asian‐ American Women Writers

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The Analysis of Women Writers

Introduction

Diana Chang B. 1934

Edith Maude Eaton 1865-1914 Winnifred Eaton 1875-1954

Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn B. 1949

Maxine Hong Kingston B. 1940

Joy Kogawa B. 1935

Bharati Mukherjee B. 1938

Amy Tan B. 1952

Linda Ty-Casper B. 1931

Jade Snow Wong B. 1919

Hisaye Yamamoto B. 1921

Wakako Yamauchi B. 1924
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Backtalk: Women Writers Speak Out ("Maxine Hong Kingston" begins on p. 171)
by Donna Perry. 348 pgs.

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This book contains fifteen in-depth interviews with important contemporary women writers from the United States, England, Ireland, and the Caribbean. The authors, who come from different racial, ethnic, and class backgrounds and sexual orientations, are all committed to telling the stories of people, especially women, who have been silenced in the past. By breaking silence, these writers are changing the face of contemporary literature. In direct, provocative conversation, these writers discuss their work and other topics: the influence of family members and their native communities, getting started as writers, writing as women, the role of "literary tradition" in helping or hindering their growth, the responsibility of the writer to the community, the question of writing accessibly versus experimenting, the energizing power of anger, the politics of publishing, and the impact of one's race, ethnicity, class, gender, and/or sexual orientation on getting read, published, and reviewed.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Paula Gunn Allen

Gloria Anzaldúa

Pat Barker

Mary Beckett

Vivian Gormick

Jamaica Kincaid

Barbara Kingsolver

Maxine Hong Kingston

Valerie Miner

Gloria Naylor

Éilís Ní Dhuibhne

Joan Riley

Joanna Russ

Leslie Marmon Silko
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Women Shapeshifters: Transforming the Contemporary Novel (Chap. 8 "Unwinding the K(Not): Maxine Hong Kingston")
by Thelma J. Shinn. 180 pgs.

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An exciting study of novels by ten women writers who have combined the traditions of Romance and Realism to offer a more comprehensive view of contemporary life.

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Recent Titles in Contributions in Women's Studies

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Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Re-Visioning Reality

1: The Wheel of Life: Eudora Welty and Gloria Naylor

2: The Word Made Man: Margaret Atwood

3: Mapping the Mind: Doris Lessing

Part II: Realizing the Romance

4: Signifyin(g) Science Fiction: Octavia E. Butler

5: Magic Realism: Isabel Allende

6: Repossessing the Romance: Antonia Susan Byatt

Part III: Reinventing the World

7: Orbiting Home: Toni Cade Bambara

8: Unwinding the K(not): Maxine Hong Kingston

9: Weaving the Web: Leslie Marmon Silko

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

About the Author
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Altered Egos: Authority in American Autobiography (Chap. 9 "Biculturalism in Contemporary Autobiography: Richard Rodriguez and Maxine Hong Kingston")
by G. Thomas Couser. 285 pgs.

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This work explores the "authority" of autobiography in several related senses: first, the idea that autobiography is authoritative writing because it is presumably verifiable; second, the idea that one's life is one's exclusive textual domain; third, the idea that, because of the apparent congruence between the implicit ideology of the genre and that of the nation, autobiography has a special prestige in America. Aware of the recent critiques of the notion of autobiography as issuing from, determined by, or referring to a pre-existing self, Couser examines the ways in which the authority of particular texts is called into question--for example, because they involve pseudonymity (Mark Twain), the revision of a presumably spontaneous form (Mary Chesnut's Civil War "diaries"), bilingual authorship (Richard Rodriguez and Maxine Hong Kingston), collaborative production (Black Elk), or outright fraud (Clifford Irving's "autobiography" of Howard Hughes). Couser examines both the way in which canonical autobiographers may playfully and purposely undermine their own narrative authority and the way in which minority writers' control of their lives may be compromised. Autobiography, then, is portrayed here as an arena in which individuals struggle for self-possession and self-expression against the constraints of language, genre, and society.

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1: Prologue: The Case of the Counterfeit Autobiography

2: Introduction: Authority, Autobiography, America

3: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Self-Constitutional Conventions

4: Prose and Cons: The Autobiographies of P. T. Barnum

5: False "I's": Mark Twain's Pseudonymous Autobiography

6: (En)Slave(d) Narrative: Early Afro-American Life-Writing

7: Mary Boykin Chesnut: Secession, Confederacy, Reconstruction

8: Black Elk Speaks With Forked Tongue

9: Biculturalism in Contemporary Autobiography: Richard Rodriguez and Maxine Hong Kingston

10: Conclusion

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index
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The Melancholy of Race (Chap. 3 "A Fable of Exquisite Corpses: Maxine Hong Kingston, Assimilation, and the Hypochondriacal Response")
by Anne Anlin Cheng. 263 pgs.

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In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study Anne Anlin Cheng argues that we have to understand racial grief not only as the result of racism but also as a foundation for racial identity. The Melancholy of Race proposes that racial identification is itself already a melancholic act--a social category that is imaginatively supported through a dynamic of loss and compensation, by which the racial other is at once rejected and retained. Using psychoanalytic theories on mourning and melancholia as inroads into her subject, Cheng offers a closely observed and carefully reasoned account of the minority experience as expressed in works of art by, and about, Asian-Americans and African-Americans. She argues that the racial minority and dominant American culture both suffer from racial melancholia and that this insight is crucial to a productive reimagining of progressive politics. Her discussion ranges from "Flower Drum Song" to "M. Butterfly," Brown v. Board of Education to Anna Deavere Smith's "Twilight," and Invisible Man to The Woman Warrior, in the process demonstrating that racial melancholia permeates our fantasies of citizenship, assimilation, and social health. Her investigations reveal the common interests that social, legal, and literary histories of race have always shared with psychoanalysis, and situates Asian-American and African-American identities in relation to one another within the larger process of American racialization. A provocative look at a timely subject, this study is essential reading for anyone interested in race studies, critical theory, or psychoanalysis.

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The Melancholy of Race

Preface

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1: The Melancholy of Race

2: Beauty and Ideal Citizenship: Inventing Asian America in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song (1961)

3: A Fable of Exquisite Corpses: Maxine Hong Kingston, Assimilation, and the Hypochondriacal Response

4: Fantasy's Repulsion and Investment: David Henry Hwang and Ralph Ellison

5: History In/Against the Fragment: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

6: Difficult Loves: Anna Deavere Smith and the Politics of Grief

Notes

Works Cited

Acknowledgments

Index
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Teaching American Ethnic Literatures: Nineteen Essays ("'Growing with Stories': Chinese American Identities, Textual Identities (Maxine Hong Kingston)" begins on p. 273)
by John R. Maitino, David R. Peck. 350 pgs.

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Introduction

Preface: Native American Literature

Indian Preservation: Teaching Black Elk Speaks

Beauty Before Me: Notes on House Made of Dawn (n. Scott Momaday)

Crying for Vision in James Welch's Winter in the Blood

Ceremony: from Alienation to Reciprocity (leslie Marmon Silko)

Building Bridges: Crossing the Waters to a Love Medicine (Louise Erdrich)

Preface: African American Literature

Ethnic and Gender Identity in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

Racial Discourse and Self-Creation: Richard Wright's Black Boy

"Measure Him Right": an Analysis of Lorraine Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun

"Closer to the Edge": Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon

A Fairy-Tale Life: The Making of Celie in Alice Walker's the Color Purple

Preface: Mexican American Literature

Learning to Read (and/In) Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima

Chicano Theatre Reaches the Professional Stage: Luis Valdez's Zoot Suit

Entering the House on Mango Street (sandra Cisneros)

Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory and New Perspectives on Ethnic Autobiography

Preface: Asian American Literature

Searching for the Heart of "America" (carlos Bulosan)

"Growing with Stories":: Chinese American Identities, Textual Identities (maxine Hong Kingston)

Experiential Approaches to Teaching Joy Kogawa's Obasan

Reading Between the Syllables: Hisaye Yamamoto's Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories

Swan-Feather Mothers and Coca-Cola Daughters: Teaching Amy Tan's the Joy Luck Club

Contributors
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Authentic Watermelon: Maxine Hong Kingston's American Novel, in MELUS
by Elliott H. Shapiro. 24 pgs.

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The Shapes and Styles of Asian American Prose Fiction (Chap. Six "Maxine Hong Kingston: The Writer as Warrior")
by Esther Mikyung Ghymn. 134 pgs.

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Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter Two: Chin Yang Lee: Early Chinese American Writer

Chapter Three: Kim Yong Ik: Short Story Writer

Chapter Four Richard Kim: Korean American Existentialist

Chapter Five: Yoshiko Uchida's Positive Vision

Chapter Six: Maxine Hong Kingston: the Writer as Warrior

Chapter Seven: Conclusion

Bibliography of Works Cited
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Imagining the Nation: Asian American Literature and Cultural Consent (Chap. 2 "Can Maxine Hong Kingston Speak? The Contingency of The Woman Warrior")
by David Leiwei Li. 268 pgs.

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Since the 1970's, when Maxine Hong Kingston began publishing her prize-winning books, we have seen an explosive growth in Asian American literature, a literature that has won both popular and critical acclaim. Literary anthologies and critical studies attest to a growing academic interest in the field. This book seeks to identify the forces behind this literary emergence and to explore both the unique place of Asian Americans in American culture and what that place says about the way Americanness is defined.
The author is preoccupied with how the sense of the nation is disseminated through the practice of reading and writing, and he argues that Asian American literature is a productive discursive negotiation of the contemporary contradiction in American citizenship. By analyzing the textual strategies with which literary Asian America is represented, the book shows how the "fictive ethnicity" of the nation continues to exert its regulatory power and suggests how we can work toward a radical American democratic consent.
Through nuanced readings of exemplary texts, the author delineates how Asian American literary production has become a site for the creation of Asian American subjects and community. The texts range from Kingston's enigmatic Tripmaster Monkey to the seductive cunning of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club; from Bharati Mukherjee's romantic Jasmine to the geocultural ambivalence of David Mure's Turning Japanese; and from the transvestic subversion of David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly to the transpirational tropes of David Wong Louie's Pangs of Love.
Imagining the Nation integrates a fine appreciation of the formal features of Asian American literature with the conflict andconvergence among different reading communities and the dilemma of ethnic intellectuals caught in the process of their institutionalization. By articulating Asian American structures of feeling across the nexus of East and Wes

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Asian America

Acknowledgments

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Introduction Alienation, Abjection, and Asian American Citizenship

Part I Emergence

1 Aiiieeeee! and The Predicament of Asian American Articulation

2 Can Maxine Hong Kingston Speak? The Contingency Of The Woman Warrior

Claiming America Part II

3 Canon, Collaboration, And the Corporeality Of Culture

4 American Romances, Immigrant Incarnations

Part Iii Whither Asia

5 Genes, Generation, And Geospiritual (be)longings

6 Eccentric Homes: Topography, Pedagogy, And Memory

Part Iv Representation Reconsidered

7 The Look, the Act, The Transvestic, and The Transpirational Asian

8 Ethnic Agency And the Challenge Of Representation

Conclusion Asian American Identity In Difference and Diaspora

Reference Matter

Notes

Works Cited

Index
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Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context (Chap. 6 "Chinatown Cowboys and Warrior Women Searching for a New Self-Image")
by Elaine H. Kim. 361 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

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1: Images of Asians in Anglo-American Literature

2: From Asian to Asian American Early Asian Immigrant Writers

3: Sacrifice for Success Second-Generation Self-Portrait

4: Portraits of Chinatown

5: Japanese American Family and Community Portraits

6: Chinatown Cowboys and Warrior Women Searching for a New Self-Image

7: Multiple Mirrors and Many Images New Directions in Asian American Literature

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Index
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Asian-American Writers ("Monkey Business: Maxine Hong Kingston's Transformational Trickster Texts" begins on p. 201)
by Harold Bloom. 234 pgs.

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-- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights
-- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world -- from the English medievalists to contemporary writers

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Asian-American Writers

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Editor's Note

Introduction

After Imprisonment: Ichiro's Search for Redemption in No-No Boy

Writer in the Hyphenated Condition: Diana Chang

Relocation and Dislocation: the Writings of Hisaye Yamamoto and Wakako Yamauchi

Sui Sin Far/Edith Eaton: the First Chinese-American Fictionist

Winnifred Eaton: Ethnic Chameleon and Popular Success

"As in Myth, the Signs Were All Over": the Fiction of N. V.M. Gonzalez

"Seventeen Syllables": a Symbolic Haiku

Japanese American Women's Life Stories: Maternality in Monica Sone's Nisei Daughter and Joy Kogarwa's Obasan

Carlos Bulosan: a Filipino American Community Portrait

From Isolation to Integration: Vietnamese Americans in Tran Dieu Hang's Fiction

Facing the Incurable: Patriarchy in Eat a Bowl of Tea

Filipinos in the United States and Their Literature of Exile

Beyond "Clay Walls": Korean American Literature

Reading and Writing the South Asian Diaspora: Feminism and Nationalism in North America

Monkey Business: Maxine Hong Kingston's Transformational Trickster Texts

Chronology

Contributors

Bibliography

Acknowledgements

Index
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Gender Crossing in Maxine Hong Kingston's 'Tripmaster Monkey,' in MELUS
by Hsiao-hung Chang. 20 pgs.

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Women Memoirists, Vol. One ("Maxine Hong Kingston" begins on p. 143)
by Harold Bloom. 157 pgs.

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Women Memoirists

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The Analysis of Women Writers

Introduction

Maya Angelou

Vera Brittain

Frances (fanny) Burney

Annie Dillard

Janet Frame

Martha Gellhorn

Lillian Hellman

Violet Hunt

Zora Neale Hurston

Harriet Ann Jacobs

Alice James

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