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Transnational, National, and Personal Voices: New Perspectives on Asian American and Asian Diasporic Women Writers.

Publication: MELUS
Publication Date: 22-DEC-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Transnational, National, and Personal Voices: New Perspectives on Asian American and Asian Diasporic Women Writers.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Transnational, National, and Personal Voices: New Perspectives on Asian American and Asian Diasporic Women Writers. Eds. Begona Simal and Elisabetta Marino. Munster, Germany: LIT Verlag, 2004. 259 pages. $39.95 paper.

Begona Simal (University of Coruna, Spain) and Elisabetta Marino (University of Rome "Tor Vergata," Italy), who have long been active in the European Association of American Studies, have worked with ten scholars from Spain, Italy, France, UK, USA, and Taiwan to produce this volume containing twelve articles. The four essays in the first thematic cluster titled "Transnational, National and Personal Voices in Foundational Asian American Texts" reinvestigate early, canonical texts like Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior and China Men, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee, and Sky Lee's Disappearing Moon Cafe. The first essay, "Talking-Story: Reading The Woman Warrior and Rearticulating American Identities" by Theresa Tensuan, reviews the much-debated work and its critical history in the contexts of the genre of autobiography, feminism, and...

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