TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pin-chia Feng
PY  - 1999
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - The Female «Bildungsroman» by Toni Morrison and Maxine Hong Kingston
T2  - A Postmodern Reading
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1090788
N2  - 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.
KW  - Identity, Politics of rememory, Textual representation, Female development, Racism
LA  - English
ER  -