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The Resource Maxine Hong Kingston's broken book of life : an intertextual study of the Woman warrior and China men, Maureen Sabine

Maxine Hong Kingston's broken book of life : an intertextual study of the Woman warrior and China men, Maureen Sabine

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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
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (229 pages)
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
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9780824863548
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Maxine Hong Kingston's broken book of life : an intertextual study of the Woman warrior and China men
Title
Maxine Hong Kingston's broken book of life
Title remainder
an intertextual study of the Woman warrior and China men
Statement of responsibility
Maureen Sabine
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Language
eng
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
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digitized
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Sabine, Maureen
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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
Index
index present
Language note
In English
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
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  • Kingston, Maxine Hong
  • Kingston, Maxine Hong
  • Kingston, Maxine Hong
  • Kingston, Maxine Hong
  • Chinese American women
  • Chinese Americans
  • Chinese Americans
  • Intertextuality
  • Intertekstualiteit
  • Amerikaans
  • Chinese American women
  • Intertextuality
  • English
  • Languages & Literatures
  • American Literature
  • LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese
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Maxine Hong Kingston's broken book of life : an intertextual study of the Woman warrior and China men, Maureen Sabine
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file reproduced from original
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-219) and index
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online resource
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rdacarrier
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black and white
Content category
text
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  • txt
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rdacontent
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
Control code
ocn607059747
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unknown
Extent
1 online resource (229 pages)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780824863548
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  • lossy
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computer
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rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
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JSTOR
Other control number
10.21313/9780824863548
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22573/ctt225s6r1
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  • preservation
  • access
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction.
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)607059747
System details
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Label
Maxine Hong Kingston's broken book of life : an intertextual study of the Woman warrior and China men, Maureen Sabine
Publication
Antecedent source
file reproduced from original
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-219) and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
black and white
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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
Control code
ocn607059747
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (229 pages)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780824863548
Level of compression
  • lossless
  • lossy
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Note
JSTOR
Other control number
10.21313/9780824863548
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
22573/ctt225s6r1
Reformatting quality
  • preservation
  • access
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction.
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)607059747
System details
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

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