The woman warrior ; China men / Maxine Hong Kingston ; with an introduction by Mary Gordon. by Kingston, Maxine Hong

Retold stories, untold histories : Maxine Hong Kingston and Leslie Marmon Silko on the politics of imagining the past / by Joanna Ziarkowska. by Ziarkowska, Joanna

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Violet America : regional cosmopolitanism in U.S. fiction since the Great Depression / Jason Arthur. by Arthur, Jason, 1976-

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Diasporic Chineseness after the rise of China : communities and cultural production / edited by Julia Kuehn, Kam Louie, David Pomfret. by Louie, Kam, Pomfret, David M., 1973-, Kuehn, Julia

Table of Contents: “…Residual Chineseness after the Rise of China / Ien Ang -- Twenty-Three Years in Migration, 1989-2012: A Writer's View and Review / Ouyang Yu -- Globe-Trotting Chinese Masculinity: Wealthy, Worldly, and Worthy / Kam Louie -- Textual and Other Oxymorons: Sino-Anglophone Writing of War and Peace in Maxine Hong Kingston's Fifth Book of Peace / Shirley Geok-lin Lim -- The Autoethnographic Impulse: Two New Zealand Chinese Playwrights / Hilary Chung -- The Provocation of Dim Sum; or, Making Diaspora Visible on Film / Rey Chow -- Performing Bodies, Translated Histories: Ang Lee's Lust, Caution, Transnational Cinema, and Chinese Diasporas / Dristina Demaria -- Dancing in the Diaspora: "Cultural Long-Distance Nationalism" and the Staging of Chineseness by San Francisco's Chinese Folk Dance Association / Sau-ling C. …”
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Breaking the jaws of silence : sixty American poets speak to the world / edited by Sholeh Wolpé.

Table of Contents: “…Metz / Dorianne Laux -- Ex-embassy / Carol Muske-Dukes -- August 6, and again on August 9 / Maxine Hong Kingston -- The allusion of seduction / Quincy Troupe -- Dear Prudence / Juan Felipe Herrera -- Asphodel / Gerald Stern -- Dark thirty / Barbara Ras -- Teacup manifesto / Molly Peacock -- Fatwa / Sharon Doubiago -- What's fair is fair / Ralph Angel -- Poverty / Christopher Buckley -- The gatekeeper's children / Philip Levine -- More poetry / Carl Dennis -- The people of the other village / Thomas Lux -- Wait / Galway Kinnell.…”
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From girl to woman : American women's coming-of-age narratives / by Christy Rishoi. by Rishoi, Christy, 1958-

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Women in literature : reading through the lens of gender / edited by Jerilyn Fisher and Ellen S. Silber ; foreword by David Sadker.

Table of Contents: “…Ware -- Women righting wrongs : morality and justice in Susan Glaspell's Trifles / Jerilyn Fisher -- "For such as we are made of, such we be" : the construction of gender in William Shakespeare's Twelfth night, or What you will / Terry Reilly -- The power of mothers in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin / Denise Kohn -- A Chinese-American woman warrior comes of age : Maxine Hong Kingston's The woman warrior : memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts / Susan Currier -- The will to survive in Gloria Naylor's The women of Brewster Place / Loretta G. …”