| Ritual, Media, and Conflict Contributor(s): Wong, Say-Ling Cynthia (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0195116542 ISBN-13: 9780195116540 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $198.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 1999 Annotation: This casebook present a thought-provoking overview of the critical, debates surrounding Kingston's The Woman Warrior, perhaps the best known contemporary Asian American literary work and reputedly the most widely read title in American universities today. The essays deal with the reception of the work by various interpretive communities, canon formation, cultural authenticity, fictionality in autobiography, and feminist and poststructuralist subjectivity. In the context of increasing diversity in the US population and transnational cultural flows, the casebook helps scholars and students navigate complex questions on how a multi-situated work is to be read. The essays are preceded by insightful headnotes and are supplemented by Susan Brownmiller's 1977 interview with Kingston. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - Asian American - History | United States - General |
| Dewey: 973.049 |
| LCCN: 98011577 |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 5.82" W x 8.96" (0.96 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Asian - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: With the continued expansion of the literary canon, multicultural works of modern literary fiction and autobiography have assumed an increasing importance for students and scholars of American literature. This exciting new series assembles key documents and criticism concerning these works that have so recently become central components of the American literature curriculum. Each casebook will reprint documents relating to the work's historical context and reception, present the best in critical essays, and when possible, feature an interview of the author. The series will provide, for the first time, an accessible forum in which readers can come to a fuller understanding of these contemporary masterpieces and the unique aspects of American ethnic, racial, or cultural experience that they so ably portray. This case book presents a thought-provoking overview of critical debates surrounding The Woman Warrior, perhaps the best known Asian American literary work. The essays deal with such issues as the reception by various interpretive communities, canon formation, cultural authenticity, fictionality in autobiography, and feminist and poststructuralist subjectivity. The eight essays are supplemented an interview with the author and a bibliography. |