ISBN: 9780195116540

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 Ame… More...

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 worksthat 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 inautobiography, and feminist and poststructuralist subjectivity. The eight essays are supplemented an interview with the author and a bibliography. | Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior by Say-ling Cynthia Wong Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Books > Literary Criticism > Criticism & Theory P10106, Say-ling Cynthia Wong<

ISBN: 9780195116540

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 Ame… More...

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 worksthat 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 inautobiography, and feminist and poststructuralist subjectivity. The eight essays are supplemented an interview with the author and a bibliography. Books > Literary Criticism > Criticism & Theory List_Books, [PU: Oxford University Press]<

ISBN: 9780195116540

Hardback, [PU: Oxford University Press Inc], An overview of critical issues surrounding Kingston's contemporary classic, such as reception by various interpretive communities, canon forma… More...

Hardback, [PU: Oxford University Press Inc], An overview of critical issues surrounding Kingston's contemporary classic, such as reception by various interpretive communities, canon formation, cultural authenticity, fictionality in autobiography, and feminist and poststructuralist subjectivity, these eight critical essays are supplemented by headnotes, an interview and a bibliography., Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers<

ISBN: 9780195116540

Hardback, [PU: Oxford University Press Inc], An overview of critical issues surrounding Kingston's contemporary classic, such as reception by various interpretive communities, canon forma… More...

Hardback, [PU: Oxford University Press Inc], An overview of critical issues surrounding Kingston's contemporary classic, such as reception by various interpretive communities, canon formation, cultural authenticity, fictionality in autobiography, and feminist and poststructuralist subjectivity, these eight critical essays are supplemented by headnotes, an interview and a bibliography., Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers<