| In Her Mother's House: The Politics of Asian American Mother-Daughter Writing Contributor(s): Ho, Wendy (Author) |
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ISBN: 0742503372 ISBN-13: 9780742503373 Publisher: Altamira Press OUR PRICE: $52.47 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2000 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - Asian American - Social Science | Popular Culture - Political Science |
| Dewey: 813.540 |
| LCCN: 99006245 |
| Series: Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 5.87" W x 9" (0.82 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Asian - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Unwilling to see Asian American women silenced beneath the noisy discourses of feminists, cultural nationalists, and Eurocentric historians, Wendy Ho turns to specific spoken stories of mothers and daughters. Against reductive tendencies of scholarship, she places her own conversations with her China-born grandmother and her U.S.-born mother and her own readings of other Asian American women writers. She finds in the writings of Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, and Fae Myenne Ng not only complex mother-daughter relationships but many-faceted relationships to fathers, family, community, and culture. Always resisting the simplistic explanations, In Her Mother's House brings Asian American women's experience as mothers and daughters to the forefront of gender and ethnicity. |