Threads of Identity in Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman Warrior
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4847104 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margaret Miller (0000-0001-7798-7868), Margaret K Miller (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 13-33 |
| Publication date | 1983-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Biography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-4962 • E-ISSN: 1529-1456 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/bio.2010.0678 |
| OpenAlex | W2063298254 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 10 |
As a Chinese-American female, Maxine Hong Kingston has problems of identity which profoundly affect the autobiographical act. Her difficulties with the autobiographical "I" stem from the Chinese submergence of individual identity and its devaluation of the female; her bios is, similarly, less a description of her own life than of the ancestral forces which have shaped her. In the act of writing, however, Kingston rescues herself from her victimization and creates both a self and a text which transcend the tangle of influences
Aesthetics · Affect (linguistics) · Art · Devaluation · Identity (music) · Linguistics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Communication · Gender Studies · History · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.16 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1989 - 2022 (34) |
| Highly cited | No |