Critical Essays on MAXINE HONG KINGSTON edited by LAURA E. SKANDERA-TROMBLEY G. K. Hall & Co. An Imprint of Simon & Schuster Macmillan -. New York Prentice Hall International London Mexico City New Delhi Singapore Sydney Toronto Contents • General Editor's Note i Publisher's Note iii Introduction 1 LAURA E. SKANDERA-TROMBLEY INTERVIEW A Conversation with Maxine Hong Kingston 33 LAURA E. SKANDERA-TROMBLEY OVERVIEW Maxine Hong Kingston's Fake Books 51 DEBRA SHOSTAK REVIEWS OF THE WOMAN WARRIOR In Defiance of 2 Worlds 77 JOHN LEONARD \yGhosts 79 DIANE JOHNSON The Mysterious West [and Diane Johnson's Reply] 84 JEFFREY PAUL CHAN AND DIANE JOHNSON ^Ghosts" of Girlhood Lift Obscure Book to Peak of Acclaim 88 NAN ROBERTSON RESPONSE TO REVIEWS OF THE WOMAN WARRIOR r^ Cultural Mis-readings by American Reviewers 95 MAXINE HONG KINGSTON VII viii • CONTENTS ESSAYS ON THE WOMAN WARRIOR The Woman Warrior versus The Chinaman Pacific: Must a Chinese American Critic Choose between Feminism and Heroism? 107 KING-KOK CHEUNG The Subject of Memoirs: The Woman Warrior's Technology of Ideographic Selfhood 125 LEE QUINBY Autobiography as Guided Chinatown Tour? Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior and the Chinese-American Autobiographical Controversy 146 SAU-LING CYNTHIA WONG Maxine Hong Kingston and the Dialogic Dilemma of Asian American Writers 168 AMY LING Re-presenting The Woman Warrior: An Essay of Interpretive History 182 DAVID LEIWEI LI REVIEWS OF CHINA MEN Chinese Ghost Story 207 FREDRIC WAKEMAN JR. Ghosts on a Gold Mountain 216 CLARA CLAIBORNE PARK _ China Men 223 LINDA KAUFFMAN ESSAYS ON CHINA MEN Tang Ao in America: Male Subject Positions in China Men 229 DONALD C. GOELLNICHT When the Ghosts Speak: Oral and Written Narrative Forms in Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men 246 MARY SLOWIK Engendering Genre: Gender and Nationalism in China Men and The Woman Warrior 261 LEILANI NISHIME CONTENTS • ix REVIEWS OF TRIPMASTER MONKEY Wittman at the Golden Gate ' 279 BHARATI MUKHERJEE » Manic Monologue '" 282 ANNE TYLER Demons and Warriors 285 CAROLINE ONG ESSAYS ON TRIPMASTER MONKEY Clashing Constructs of Reality: Reading Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book as Indigenous Ethnography 291 PATRICIA LIN Bee-e-een! Nation, Transformation, and the Hyphen of Ethnicity in Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey 304 ISABELLA FURTH Parody and Pacifist Transformations in Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book 318 A. NOELLE WILLIAMS Cross-Cultural Play: Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey 334 JEANNE R. SMITH Index 349.