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Literature/Identity: Transnationalism, Narrative and Representation

Pages 209-234 | Published online: 29 Oct 2010

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  • Cheung . “Introduction,” . Words Matter , 1 – 17 . 1 – 2 .
  • Kingston , Maxine Hong . 1998 . “Cultural Mis-readings by American Reviewers,” . In Critical Essays on Maxine Hong Kingston , Edited by: Skandera-Trombley , Laura E. 95 – 103 . 101 New York : G.K. Hall & Co. .
  • Li , David Leiwei . “Re-presenting The Woman Warrior: An Essay of lnterpretive History,” . In Skandera-Trombley, Critical Easays on Maxine Hong Kingston 182 – 203 . 189 – 90 .
  • Tan , Amy . 1999 . “Why I write.” . Literary Cavalcade , 51.6 March : 10 – 13 . 11
  • Pitkin , Hannah F. 1967 . The Concept of Representation , 242 – 252 . 242 – 243 . Berkeley : University of California Press . "appendix on etymology,"
  • Gilroy , Paul . 1996 . “The Whisper Wakes, the Shudder Plays' : Race, Nation and Ethnic Absolutism,” . In Contemporary Postcolonial Theory: A Reader , Edited by: Mongia , Padmini . 248 – 274 . 263 London : Arnold .
  • Ang , Len . 1994 . “On Not Speaking Chinese: Postmodern Ethnicity and the Politics of Diaspora,” . New Formations , Winter : 1 – 18 . For three important, and personalized, discussions of "Chineseness," see
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  • Chow , Rey . 1998 . “Introduction: On Chineseness as a Theoretical Problem.” . boundary , 2 ( 25.1 ) Fall : 1 – 24 . For a more light-hearled discussion
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  • Wood , Robert and Halter , Marilyn . 2000 . Shopping for Identity: The Marketing of Ethnicity , 9 New York : Schocken Books .
  • Dirlik , Arif . in press . “Modernity as History,” . Social History , For further discussion of these problems, see
  • Dirlik , Arif . 2001 . “Markets. Culture, Power: The Making of a 'Second Cultural Revolution' in China,” . Asian Studies Review' , 25 ( 1 ) March : 1 – 33 .
  • Wong , Sau ling Cynthia . “Autobiography as Guided Chinatown Tour? Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman Warrior and the Chinese-American Autobiographical Controversy,” . In Skandera-Trombley, Critical Essays on Maxine Hong Kingston 146 – 167 . 156 – 157 .
  • Wong , Sau ling Cynthia . 1995 . “'Sugar Sisterhood': Situating the Amy Tan Phenomenon,” . In The Ethnic Canon: Histories, institutions, and Interventions , Edited by: Palumbo-Liu , David . 174 – 210 . 187 Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press .
  • Chan , Jeffrey Paul , ed. 1991 . “Come all Ye Asian American Writers of the Real and (he Fake,” . In Frank China, Lawson Fusao Inada, and Shawn Wong, The Big AIIIEEEEE , 1 – 91 . New York : Meridian Books . Kingston's critics are many (and they are not all male) but among them, Frank China has been the most persistent. For his comprehensive criticism of Chinese-American writers, including Kingston and Tan. see
  • Ling , Amy and Skandera-Trombley . “Maxine Hong Kingston and the Dialogic Dilemma of Asian American Writers.” . In Critical Essays on Maxine Hong Kingston 168 – 181 . 172
  • Ibid. pp. 168-169.
  • Lo , Kwal-Cheung . 2000 . “Reaffirming 'Chineseness' in the Translation of Asian American Literature: Maxine Hong Kingston's Fictions in Taiwan and Mainland China.” . Translation Quarterly , : 74 – 98 .
  • Ibid., p. 78-79.
  • Ibid. p. 87.
  • Chin , Marilyn . 1998 . “ 'Writing the Other: An Interview with Maxine Hong Kingston,” . In Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston , Edited by: Skenazy , Paul and Jackson , Tera Martin . 82 Jackson, Ml : University Press of Mississippi . Quoted In Lo
  • Rushdie , Salman . 1997 . “Damme. This is the Oriental Scene for You!” . The New Yorker , June 23 & 30 : 53 – 61 .
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  • Grossberg , SeeLawrenre . 1997 . “Identity and Cultural studies: Is That All There Is?” . In Question of Cultural Identity , Edited by: Hall , Stuart and Gay , Paul Du . 87 – 107 . Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications . Cultural studies. In other words, are significant not for allowing celebrations of cultural difference but for recognizing an autonomous part to cultural activity In political transformation
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  • Basch , Linda , Schiller , Nina Glick and Blanc , Christina Szanton . 1994 . Nations Unbound: Transnational Projects. Postcolonial Predicaments, and Deterritorialized Nation-Stales , New York : Gordon and Breach. .
  • During , Simon . “Literature-Nationalisms Other"? The Case for Revision,” . Homi Bahabha. Nation and Narration , 138 – 154 . For a discussion challenging the Identification of literature with national culture, see
  • Senocak , Zefer . “War and Peace in Modernity: Reflections on the GermanTurkish Future” . In Senocak. Alias of a Tropical Germany: Essays on Politics and Culture. 1990-1998, tr. and ed. By Leslie A. Adelson , Edited by: Chalmers , Martin and Adelson , Leslie A. 83 – 98 . 98 Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press .
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