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1. Why is Kingston’s use of traditional Chinese myth considered controversial by some Asian American critics?
2. In what ways is Kingston’s autobiographical form innovative?
3. What is meant by the term “double consciousness”? How can this term be applied to Kingston’s writing?
4. Explore the parallels between the historical treatment of Chinese immigrants in America and Kingston’s representation of the immigrant experience.
5. Analyze Kingston’s use of narrative voice. Why does she invariably use a feminine narrator?
6. Kingston describes The Woman Warrior and China Men as originally comprising one single long book. Discuss the formal and thematic relations between the two narratives.
7. Consider the treatment of mother-daughter relationships in the work of Kingston and Amy Tan.
8. Kingston has remarked that, given the kind of upbringing she experienced, there was never any...

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1. Introduction
2. About Maxine Hong Kingston
3. Kingston At Work
4. Kingston’s Era
5. Kingston’s Works
6. Kingston On Kingston
7. Kingston As Studied
8. Study Questions
9. Bibliography
10. Copyright

1. Feminism
2. Maxine Hong Kingston