SOURCE: "Autobiography as Guided Chinatown Tour? Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior and the Chinese-American Autobiographical Controversy," in Multicultural Autobiography: American Lives, edited by James Robert Payne, University of Tennessee Press, 1992, pp. 248-79.
Born in Hong Kong, Wong has been a professor in the Asian American studies program at the University of California, Berkeley, and is the author of From Necessity to Extravagance: Contexts and Intertexts in Asian American Literature. In the following essay, she surveys the controversial critical reaction to The Woman Warrior.
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