The Female Bildungsroman by Toni Morrison and Maxine Hong Kingston: A Postmodern Reading

Pin-chia Feng,Pin-Chia Feng,Maxine Hong Kingston (Senior Lecturer, Department of English University of California, Berkeley)

The Female Bildungsroman by Toni Morrison and Maxine Hong Kingston: A Postmodern Reading
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country
United States
Published
11 January 2000
Pages
193
ISBN
9780820449418

The Female Bildungsroman by Toni Morrison and Maxine Hong Kingston: A Postmodern Reading

Pin-chia Feng,Pin-Chia Feng,Maxine Hong Kingston (Senior Lecturer, Department of English University of California, Berkeley)

This study traces the textual construction of identity in the female Bildungsroman of Toni Morrison and Maxine Hong Kingston. Deploying the politics of rememory in their textual representation of female development, Morrison and Kingston unearth the multiple layers of repressed memories, including personal stories, specific cultural history, and racial experience of African- and Asian-American women. This book analyzes the working through of repressed memories in Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Sula, and Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior and China Men. The gap between Bildung and anti-Bildung in these texts highlights the multiple oppression faced by women of color and interrogates the established standards and value system of the hegemonic culture.

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