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This study traces the textual construction of identity inthe female Bildungsroman of Toni Morrison and Maxine HongKingston. Deploying the "politics of rememory" in their textualrepresentation of female development, Morrison and Kingston unearththe multiple layers of repressed memories, including personal stories,specific cultural history, and racial experiences of African- andAsian-American women. This book analyzes the working through ofrepressed memories in Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Sula, and HongKingston's The Woman Warrior and China Men. The gap between Bildungand anti-Bildung in these texts highlights the multiple oppressionfaced by women of color and interrogates the established standards andvalue system of the hegemonic culture. ... Read more