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Author:
Ho, Wendy.
Title:
In her mother's house : the politics of Asian American mother-daughter writing / Wendy Ho.
Publisher:
AltaMira Press,
Copyright Date:
c1999
Description:
285 p. ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Ng, Fae Myenne,--1956---Criticism and interpretation.
Kingston, Maxine Hong--Criticism and interpretation.
Tan, Amy--Criticism and interpretation.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Politics and literature--United States--History--20th century.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.
Mothers and daughters in literature.
Asian American women in literature.
Asian Americans in literature.
Notes:
Includes index. Bibliography: p. 245-273.
Contents:
Beneath the pirie mangotree: the self-talking story about mothers and daughters -- Feminist recovery and reception: Chinese American mother-daughter stories -- The traffic in women: migration and representation -- Outlaw brotherhood: cultural nationalism and the politics of mother-daughter discourses -- Desire in the desert: the self talking-story in Maxine Hong Kingston's mother-daughter stories -- Losing your innocence but not your hope: Amy Tan's Joy Luck mothers and Coca-Cola daughters -- "The heart never travels": the incorporation of fathers in the mother-daughter stories of Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan and Fae Myenne Ng -- Coda: the political heart of the matter.
Series:
Critical perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans series
ISBN:
9780761983163 (pbk.)
0761983163 (pbk.)
9780761983156
0761983155
9780761990482
0761990488
9780761990475
076199047X
9780742503366 (alk. paper)
0742503364 (alk. paper)
9780742503373 (pbk : alk. paper)
0742503372 (pbk : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)40939888
(OCoLC)44653028
LCCN:
99006245
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)
PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)
ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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