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This extensive chronology of US women's writing and social history catalogues authors of fiction and nonfiction across a wide range of genres - novels, poetry, cookbooks, songs - and describes the events from world-transforming to everyday occurences when these works were produced. This invaluable resource is a celebration of the many forms of works - written and social, tangible and intangible - produced by American women.
Outstanding, in-depth scholarship by renowned literary critics;
great starting point for students seeking an introduction to the
theme and the critical discussions surrounding it. Maxine Hong
Kingston's The Woman Warrior: Memoir of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is,
according to the Modern Language Association, the most taught text
on U.S. campuses, featured in Literature, Asian American Studies,
Asian Studies, Women's Studies, and Anthropology, as well as other
departments. Coinciding with the fortieth anniversary of
publication of The Woman Warrior, this volume features
international scholars revisiting long-standing debates about
authenticity, genre, and identity in the text, as well as pushing
forward into little explored contexts, such as transnationalism,
mythopoesis, diaspora, and relational self-hood. Additional essays
compare Kingston's masterwork to other key ethnic American writings
by authors such as Amy Tan, Maya Angelou, and Lan Cao.
The cultural diversity of the United States makes it impossible to
describe American identity as homogenous or monolithic. The sense
of belonging to multiple cultures and its relationship to identity
are central concerns in literary works by African, Native, Asian,
Latino/a, and other ethnic Americans. While some prioritize one
culture over another, others emphasize the space in between, to
insist on a balance between the two, or to express a feeling of
being in-between, or the inability to participate in either side,
as so brilliantly evoked in Sui Sin Far's description: "I give my
right hand to the Occidentals and my left to the Orientals, hoping
that between them they will not utterly destroy the insignificant
`connecting link.'" In multicultural America, identity can be
complicated, confusing, even frustrating while at the same time
inspiring new perspectives, creativity, and a rich source of pride.
This volume features studies of works as diverse as Sherman
Alexie's National Book Award-winning The Absolutely True Diary of a
Part-Time Indian, Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised Land, and the
lesser known but equally powerful Real Women Have Curves by
Josefina Lopez. Also offered are essays exploring cultural and
historical contexts including one by Annette Harris Powell on the
changing politics of hyphenation in the United States and its
literature over the course of the 20th century
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