The Female «Bildungsroman» by Toni Morrison and Maxine Hong Kingston

A Postmodern Reading

von Pin-chia Feng

196 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Modern American Literature
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein 1900 bis 2000
• ISBN: 9780820449418
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.03.1998
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York