Un)Doing The Missionary Position, Vol. 158
While the writing of other ethnic women has already been receiving considerable attention, the writing of Asian American women has not. (Un)Doing is the first feminist theoretical work to look at writing by such contemporary Asian American writers as Amy Tan, Fae Myenne Ng, R. A. Sasaki, Gish Jen, and Cynthia Kadohata. Viewing them as feminist and postfeminist writers, Kafka argues that gender asymmetry in all its varied forms and guises is the major issue that they confront. Satirizing this...
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This is the first full-length work of feminist literary criticism of such contemporary Asian American women's writing as Amy Tan's The Kitchen God's Wife, Fae Myenne Ng's Bone, R. A. Sasaki's The Loom and Other Stories, Gish Jen's Typical American, and Cynthia Kadohata's The Floating World.BooknewsExplores how selected contemporary Asian American women writers inquire into the power relations that require the feminine to be suppressed. Representing feminist, allegorical, and post-feminist approaches, they include Amy Tan, Fae Myenne Ng, Gish Jen, R. A. Sasaki, and Cynthia Kadohata. They all portray older women, usually mothers or grandmothers, as suffering and struggling as individuals embedded with their historical culture before the 1970s, while daughters or other younger women take the privileges and freedoms won by feminism for granted. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
AcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction1Ch. 1Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife: "Chasing Away a Big Stink"17Ch. 2Fae Myenne Ng, Bone: "Nina, Ona, and I, We're the Lucky Generation"51Ch. 3Gish Jen, Typical American: The Rise and Fall and Rise of the House of Chang79Ch. 4R. A. Sasaki, The Loom and Other Stories: "There Has Got to Be More to Life Than That"113Ch. 5Cynthia Kadohata, The Floating World: "I Like the Diabolical Quality, the Clarity of Admitting I Want"135Conclusion155Bibliography173Index183
\ BooknewsExplores how selected contemporary Asian American women writers inquire into the power relations that require the feminine to be suppressed. Representing feminist, allegorical, and post-feminist approaches, they include Amy Tan, Fae Myenne Ng, Gish Jen, R. A. Sasaki, and Cynthia Kadohata. They all portray older women, usually mothers or grandmothers, as suffering and struggling as individuals embedded with their historical culture before the 1970s, while daughters or other younger women take the privileges and freedoms won by feminism for granted. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.\ \
