Table of Contents:
  • About this volume / Kathryn West
  • On Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior / Linda Trinh Moser
  • Maxine Hong Kingston : a biography / Kathryn West
  • Conversation with Maxine Hong Kingston / Linda Trinh Moser
  • Twentieth-century Chinese and US history / Kathryn West
  • The Woman Warrior : an examination of genre / Rickie-Ann Legleitner
  • "What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies?" : a transnational approach to Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior : memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts / Linda Trinh Moser
  • Deliberately forgetting : the invention of unnamed ancestors in Maxine Hong Kingston and Maya Angelou / David Borman
  • Kingston's The Woman Warrior in the context of life writing studies : an exploration of relational selfhood / Anne Rüggemeier
  • "The words at my back" : Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior and the power of discourse / Lorna Martens
  • The mother's mark on the daughter's speech in The Woman Warrior / Jeffrey Westover
  • The role of talk-story in Maxine Hong Kingston's and Amy Tan's versions of the mother-daughter plot / Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw
  • Diaspora and its others : The Woman Warrior and Southeast Asian diasporic literature / Christopher B. Patterson
  • Creating meaning and self-affirmation through stories : existentialism and The Woman Warrior / Alex Pinnon
  • Mythopoesis and cultural hybridity in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior / Nelly Mok
  • Truths and tellings : The Woman Warrior and Kingston's transformational genres of the real / Elizabeth Rodrigues
  • Chronology of Maxine Hong Kingston's Life
  • Works by Maxine Hong Kingston.