Table of Contents
Foreword |
Preface |
Acknowledgements |
Introduction |
Chapter One: The Cultural Production of Controversial Women Writers |
The Politics of Literary / Cultural Criticism |
Representational Inevitability vs. Cultural Production |
Nation, Nationalism, Feminism, and the Female Body |
Mapping Global Chineseness |
Toward a New Feminist Literary and Cultural Criticism |
Chapter Two: Maxine Hong Kingston: Searching for a Heroine |
The Irreconciliable “Then” |
The Treacherous Body Canonized and Contained |