The female Bildungsroman by Toni Morrison and Maxine Hong Kingston
Subtitle: a postmodern reading
By: Pin-chia Feng.
Series: Modern American literature, 10
Publisher: P. Lang; Lang Publishing, Incorporated, Peter
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
Subjects: Morrison, Toni -- Criticism and interpretation.; Kingston, Maxine Hong -- Criticism and interpretation.; American fiction -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.; American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Psychological fiction, American -- History and criticism.; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.; Maturation (Psychology) in literature.; Ethnic groups in literature.; Bildungsromans -- History and criticism.
Description: 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 experiences 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-187) and index.