Description: This casebook present a thought-provoking overview of the critical, debates surrounding Kingston's The Woman Warrior, perhaps the best known contemporary Asian American literary work and reputedly the most widely read title in American universities today. The essays deal with the reception of the work by various interpretive communities, canon formation, cultural authenticity, fictionality in autobiography, and feminist and poststructuralist subjectivity. In the context of increasing diversity in the US population and transnational cultural flows, the casebook helps scholars and students navigate complex questions on how a multi-situated work is to be read. The essays are preceded by insightful headnotes and are supplemented by Susan Brownmiller's 1977 interview with Kingston.

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