The Woman Warrior (1976): Library Resources

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Search the Library Catalog for the following reference titles that contain material about Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior. These titles may be available in other college or public libraries.

• American Diversity, American Identity: The Lives and Works of 145 Writers Who Define the American Experience
• American Women Writers [vols 2, 5]
• Backtalk: Women Writers Speak Out
  
• Contemporary Authors [vol 69-72]
• Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series [vols 13, 38, 74, 87]
  
• Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC) - Contains passages from literary criticism originally published in books and journals
  
  • [vols 12, 19, 58, 121] - check under Woman Warrior in the Cumulative Title Index, a separate paperback index that accompanies this multi-volume work
  • [vol 189] - locate the topical essay "Multiculturalism"
  • [vol 193] - locate the topical essay "Fantasy in Contemporary Literature"
    
• Critical Survey of Long Fiction [vol 8]
  
• Cyclopedia of World Authors [vol 3]
• Literture and Its Times [vol 5]
  
• Masterplots [vol 12]
  
• Masterplots II: Nonfiction  [vol 4]
• Masterplots II: Women's Literature Series [vol 6]
• Maxine Hong Kingston
  
• Maxine Hong Kingston: A Critical Companion
  
• Modern American Literature [vol 6]
• Novels for Students [vol 6]
• Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (TCLC) - Contains passages from literary criticism originally published in books and journals
  • [vol 114] - locate the topical essays "Food in Literature" and "Postcolonialism"
    
  • [vol 206] - locate the topical essay "American Immigrant Literature"
    
• Women Memoirists
• The Woman Warrior and China Men
  

Conduct a "Subject Browse" search using the Library Catalog for either:

• Kingston, Maxine Hong
  
• Chinese American families
  

You'll find library materials that provide biographical information about Maxine Hong Kingston, as well criticism and interpretation of her work.

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