On Discovery | Feminism and History in ''On Discovery
In the following essay, Leverich discusses feminism and history in ''On Discovery.''
When Maxine Hong Kingston began writing her first novel, she found that she was really writing two books. In an interview with Paula Rabmowitz in the Michigan Quarterly Review, Kingston said:
At one time, The Woman Warrior and China Men were supposed to be one book. I had conceived of one huge book However, part of the reason for two books is history. The women had their own time and place and then: lives were coherent; there was a woman's way of thinking My men's stones seemed to interfere. They were weakening the feminist point of view. Sol took...
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