In her mother's house
Subtitle: the politics of Asian American mother-daughter writing
By: Wendy Ho.
Series: Critical perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans series
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Walnut Creek
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: Ng, Fae Myenne, 1956- -- Criticism and interpretation; Kingston, Maxine Hong -- Criticism and interpretation; Tan, Amy -- Criticism and interpretation; American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism; Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century; American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Asian American women -- Intellectual life; Mothers and daughters in literature; Asian American women in literature; Asian Americans in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-273) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Beneath the pirie mangotree: the self-talking story about mothers and daughters; title: Feminist recovery and reception: Chinese American mother-daughter stories; title: The traffic in women: migration and representation; title: Outlaw brotherhood: cultural nationalism and the politics of mother-daughter discourses; title: Desire in the desert: the self talking-story in Maxine Hong Kingston's mother-daughter stories; title: Losing your innocence but not your hope: Amy Tan's Joy Luck mothers and Coca-Cola daughters; title: "The heart never travels": the incorporation of fathers in the mother-daughter stories of Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan and Fae Myenne Ng; title: Coda: the political heart of the matter.