"Talk-stories" in the fictions of Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan

This thesis investigates the "talk-story" narrative patterns, which stem from the Chinese oral tradition, in selected works of two contemporary Chinese American women writers, Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan. In The Woman Warrior, Kingston has experimented with a new kind of "talk-st...

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Main Author: Wong, Hiu Wing
Published: University of Warwick 2006
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.524293