Critical Essays on Maxine Hong Kingston

by Skandera-Trombley, Laura E.

• ISBN13: 9780783800363
• ISBN10: 0783800363
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-11-01
• Publisher: Twayne Pub

Summary

The full range of literary traditions comes to life in the Twayne Critical Essays Series. Volume editors have carefully selected critical essays that represent the full spectrum of controversies, trends and methodologies relating to each author's work. Essays include writings from the author's native country and abroad, with interpretations from the time they were writing, through the present day.

Each volume includes:

-- An introduction providing the reader with a lucid overview of criticism from its beginnings -- illuminating controversies, evaluating approaches and sorting out the schools of thought

-- The most influential reviews and the best reprinted scholarly essays

-- A section devoted exclusively to reviews and reactions by the subject's contemporaries

-- Original essays, new translations and revisions commissioned especially for the series

-- Previously unpublished materials such as interviews, lost letters and manuscript fragments

-- A bibliography of the subject's writings and interviews

-- A name and subject index

Table of Contents

General Editor's Note	i
Publisher's Note	iii
Introduction	1	(32)
Laura E. Skandera-Trombley
INTERVIEW
A Conversation with Maxine Hong Kingston	33	(18)
Laura E. Skandera-Trombley
OVERVIEW
Maxine Hong Kingston's Fake Books	51	(26)
Debra Shostak
REVIEWS OF THE WOMAN WARRIOR
In Defiance of 2 Worlds	77	(2)
John Leonard
Ghosts	79	(5)
Diane Johnson
The Mysterious West [and Diane Johnson's Reply]	84	(4)
Jeffrey Paul Chan
Diane Johnson
``Ghosts'' of Girlhood Lift Obscure Book to Peak of Acclaim	88	(7)
Nan Robertson
RESPONSE TO REVIEWS OF THE WOMAN WARRIOR
Cultural Mis-readings by American Reviewers	95	(12)
Maxine Hong Kingston
ESSAYS ON THE WOMAN WARRIOR
The Woman Warrior versus The Chinaman Pacific: Must a Chinese American Critic Choose between Feminism and Heroism?	107	(18)
King-Kok Cheung
The Subject of Memoirs: The Woman Warrior's Technology of Ideographic Selfhood	125	(21)
Lee Quinby
Autobiography as Guided Chinatown Tour? Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior and the Chinese-American Autobiographical Controversy	146	(22)
Sau-Ling Cynthia Wong
Maxine Hong Kingston and the Dialogic Dilemma of Asian American Writers	168	(14)
Amy Ling
Re-presenting The Woman Warrior: An Essay of Interpretive History	182	(25)
David Leiwei Li
REVIEWS OF CHINA MEN
Chinese Ghost Story	207	(9)
Fredric Wakeman Jr.
Ghosts on a Gold Mountain	216	(7)
Clara Claiborne Park
China Men	223	(6)
Linda Kauffman
ESSAYS ON CHINA MEN
Tang Ao in America: Male Subject Positions in China Men	229	(17)
Donald C. Goellnicht
When the Ghosts Speak: Oral and Written Narrative Forms in Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men	246	(15)
Mary Slowik
Engendering Genre: Gender and Nationalism in China Men and The Woman Warrior	261	(18)
Leilani Nishime
REVIEWS OF TRIPMASTER MONKEY
Wittman at the Golden Gate	279	(3)
Bharati Mukherjee
Manic Monologue	282	(3)
Anne Tyler
Demons and Warriors	285	(6)
Caroline Ong
ESSAYS ON TRIPMASTER MONKEY
Clashing Constructs of Reality: Reading Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book as Indigenous Ethnography	291	(13)
Patricia Lin
Bee-e-een! Nation, Transformation, and the Hyphen of Ethnicity in Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey	304	(14)
Isabella Furth
Parody and Pacifist Transformations in Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book	318	(16)
A. Noelle Williams
Cross-Cultural Play: Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey	334	(15)
Jeanne R. Smith
Index	349