Maxine Hong Kingston's Broken Book of Life : : An Intertextual Study of The Woman Warrior and China Men / / Maureen Sabine.

The numerous studies of Maxine Hong Kingston's touchstone work The Woman Warrior fail to take into account the stories in China Men, which were largely written together with those in The Woman Warrior but later published separately. Although Hong Kingston's decision to separate the male an...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2004]
©2004
Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. The Case for an Intertextual Reading of The Woman Warrior and China Men
  • Chapter 2. "You Say with the Few Words and the Silences": The Woman Warrior's Traces of a Dialogue with China Men
  • Chapter 3. "The Precious Only Daughter" and "the Never-Said": Traces of Incest in "No Name Woman" and The Woman Warrior
  • Chapter 4. "I'll Tell You What I Suppose from Your Silences and Few Words": The Search for the Father in China Men
  • Works Cited
  • Index
  • About the Author