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Author Sabine, Maureen

Title Maxine Hong Kingston's broken book of life : an intertextual study of the Woman warrior and China men / Maureen Sabine
Published Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, 2004

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Contents The Case for an Intertextual Reading of The Woman Warrior and China Men -- "You Say with the Few Words and the Silences": The Woman Warrior's Traces of a Dialogue with China Men -- The Precious Only Daughter and the Never-Said: Traces of Incest in "No Name Woman" and The Woman Warrior -- "I'll Tell You What I Suppose from Your Silences and Few Words": The Search for the Father in China Men
Summary 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 and female narratives enabled readers to see the strength of the resulting feminist point of view in The Woman Warrior, the author has steadily maintained that to understand the book fully it was necessary to read its male companion text. Maureen Sabine's ambitious study of The Woman Warrior and China Men aims to bring these divided texts back together with a close reading that looks for the textual traces of the father in The Woman Warrior and shows how the daughter narrator tracks down his history in China Men. She considers theories of intertextuality that open up the possibility of a dynamic interplay between the two books and suggests that the Hong family women and men may be struggling for dialogue with each other even when they appear textually silent or apart
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-219) and index
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Subject Kingston, Maxine Hong -- Criticism and interpretation
Kingston, Maxine Hong. Woman warrior
Kingston, Maxine Hong. China men
SUBJECT Kingston, Maxine Hong fast
China men (Kingston, Maxine Hong) fast
Woman warrior (Kingston, Maxine Hong) fast
Subject Chinese American women -- Biography -- History and criticism
Chinese Americans -- Biography -- History and criticism
Chinese Americans -- Historiography
Intertextuality.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- Chinese.
Chinese American women -- Biography
Intertextuality
Intertekstualiteit.
Amerikaans.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0824863542
9780824863548