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The Distortion of Reality, Construction of History, and
Intertextuality in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior
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While some existing critiques sees The Woman Warrior as a token Asian text which perpetuates exotifying and Orientalist notions of Asian identity, I am arguing that the text must be understood in its own tradition, counteracting the reductionist appropriation of the text as part of the multicultural American academy. Further, I argue that a metafictional reading of The Woman Warrior creates space for and is closely linked to an Asian American feminist perspective of the themes in The Woman Warrior.
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1. Introduction2. Overview
Addressing Existing Critique
3. Metafiction4. Intertextuality5. Distortion of Reality6. Construction of History7. Conclusion
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Chapter 2, “White Tigers,” focuses on the popular Chinese folklore of Fa Mu Lan.
Fiction versus memoir?
Textual evidence[clouds as “an ink wash,” “distant peaks as if shaded by pencil,” rocks like “charcoal rubbings,” and a bird as “two black strokes”( 20)].
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Dismantling binaries
Subverting familiar stereotypes
Creating a complex representation of Asian women
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A metafictional reading of The Woman Warrior creates space for and is closely linked to a feminist analyses of its themes.