Title: The art of parody
First published: 1996
Description: Maxine Hong Kingston's use of Chinese sources is both controversial and intricate. This study, grounded in a crosscultural perspective, systematically analyzes Kingston's employment of Chinese sources and teases out a basis for a coherent, unifying reading of her three major works.

It discusses how Kingston's bicultural heritage enables her to observe life from the vantage of double consciousness, and how this vantage helps her travel freely across cultural boundaries to parody and play with both Chinese and American traditions in order to find a unique voice in her search of identity.
Subjects: Metaphor, Knowledge, Chinese Americans in literature, American literature, Sources, China, Women and literature, Mythology, Chinese, in literature, In literature, Chinese influences, Chinese American families in literature, History, Kingston, maxine hong, 1940-, Family in literature, American literature, foreign influences, Mythology in literature
Places: United States, China
People: Maxine Hong Kingston
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PS3561.I52 Z68 1996