Book contents
- The Cambridge History ofAsian American Literature
- The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Early Forms of Expression to the Start of the Twentieth Century
- Part II The Exclusion Era, World War II, and the Immediate Postwar Era
- Part III The Asian American Movement
- 12 Documenting the Third World Student Strike, the Antiwar Movement, and the Emergence of Second-Wave Feminism from Asian American Perspectives
- 13 The Art of the Asian American Movement’s Social Protest Performance
- 14 Inventing Identity: The Manifestos of Pioneering Asian American Literature Anthologies
- 15 Maxine Hong Kingston, Feminism, and Postmodern Literature
- Part IV Canons
- Part V Post-1965 and the Twenty-First Century
- Part VI Twenty-First Century: 9/11, Empire, and Other Challenges to Literature
- Bibliography
- Index
15 - Maxine Hong Kingston, Feminism, and Postmodern Literature
from Part III - The Asian American Movement
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2015
Book contents
- The Cambridge History ofAsian American Literature
- The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Early Forms of Expression to the Start of the Twentieth Century
- Part II The Exclusion Era, World War II, and the Immediate Postwar Era
- Part III The Asian American Movement
- 12 Documenting the Third World Student Strike, the Antiwar Movement, and the Emergence of Second-Wave Feminism from Asian American Perspectives
- 13 The Art of the Asian American Movement’s Social Protest Performance
- 14 Inventing Identity: The Manifestos of Pioneering Asian American Literature Anthologies
- 15 Maxine Hong Kingston, Feminism, and Postmodern Literature
- Part IV Canons
- Part V Post-1965 and the Twenty-First Century
- Part VI Twenty-First Century: 9/11, Empire, and Other Challenges to Literature
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter traces the arc of Maxine Hong Kingston's career focusing on her evolving artistic and social vision. It explores the body of her work from The Woman Warrior and China Men to her novel Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book and her more recent books The Fifth Book of Peace and I Love a Broad Margin to My Life. The chapter reanimates the critical reception of her oeuvre through the multiple vantage points of Asian American studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, and theory. It outlines The Woman Warrior's contribution to early debates about Asian American identity and cultural authenticity. The chapter examines the affinities of her work to feminism and postmodernism. While exploring the affinities between Asian American texts and postmodern or modernist literary constructions has helped Asian American critics to move beyond merely ethnographic or sociological study, David Palumbo-Liu emphasizes the importance of historically locating such literatures and their aesthetic modes.
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- The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature , pp. 271 - 286Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015