Approaches to Teaching Kingston's The Woman Warrior
Editor(s): Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Pages: xi & 178 pp.
Published: 1991
ISBN: 9780873527040 (paperback)
ISBN: 9780873527033 (hardcover)
"Since Kingston's novel is taught in many courses, this is a welcome addition to MLA's Approaches to Teaching World Literature series.... Especially useful...is the material on Kingston's use of traditional Chinese sources and on Asian American literature in general."
American Literature
Teaching The Woman Warrior can be a challenging project for instructors who are unfamiliar with the work's cultural and historical traditions. As the volume editor, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, explains in her preface, one of the goals of Approaches to Teaching Kingston's The Woman Warrior is "to introduce teachers and students to the larger body of Asian American and ethnic literature [and] to inform them of the immigrant and ethnic traditions that Kingston's work comes from and contributes to."
This Approaches volume, like others in the series, is divided into two parts. Part 1, "Materials," surveys resources for classroom instruction (such as anthologies, background materials, and cultural studies), presents bibliographic and biographical information, and describes other works by Maxine Hong Kingston. In part 2, "Approaches," seventeen essays discuss The Woman Warrior in cultural, historical, pedagogical, and critical contexts and suggest ways to include the work in courses on women's studies, American literature, ethnic literature, history, and composition. The volume features a personal statement by Kingston on the reception of The Woman Warrior and on its relation to her other works.
Table of Contents
Approaches to Teaching Kingston's The Woman Warrior
PART 1: MATERIALS
Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Editions and Anthologies
Other Works by Maxine Hong Kingston
Courses and Contexts
- The Instructor's Library
- Reference Works
- Background Studies
- Cultural Background
- Biography
- Critical Studies
PART 2: APPROACHES
Introduction
Personal Statement
Maxine Hong Kingston
Cultural and Historical Contexts
Kingston's Handling of Traditional Chinese Sources
Sau-ling Cynthia Wong
Use of Media and Other Resources to Situate The Woman Warrior
Patricia Lin
The Asian Literary Background of The Woman Warrior
Kathryn VanSpanckeren
The Woman Warrior as an Intervention in Asian American Historiography
Robert G. Lee
Pedagogical Contexts
"I've Never Read Anything like It": Student Responses to The Woman Warrior
Vicente F. Gotera
The Woman Warrior in the Women's Studies Classroom
Judith M. Melton
Woman Warriors and Military Students
James R. Aubrey
Voice and Vision: The Woman Warrior in the Writing Class
Kathleen A. Boardman
The Woman Warrior in the History Classroom
Paul W. McBride
Teaching The Woman Warrior to High School and Community College Students
Marlyn Peterson and Deirdre Lashgari
Critical Contexts: Genre, Themes, Form
The Woman Warrior as Postmodern Autobiography
Marilyn Yalom
Autobiography in a Different Voice: The Woman Warrior and the Question of Genre
Joan Lidoff
A Dialogue with(in) Tradition: Two Perspectives on The Woman Warrior
Colleen Kennedy and Deborah Morse
Speech-Act Theory and the Search for Identity in The Woman Warrior
Victoria Myers
The Woman Warrior as a Search for Ghosts
Gayle K. Fujita Sato
Mythopoesis East and West in The Woman Warrior
Cheng Lok Chua
Talking Stories / Telling Lies in The Woman Warrior
Timothy Dow Adams
Works Cited
Books and Articles
Films, Video Productions, and Recordings
Index
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