![]() ![]() ![]() Kingston's critics have felt that her exposure of anti-female prejudices as well as her unflattering depiction of Chinese-born men are a betrayal of her own group.1 Like in many other marginalized cultures, the under-1 For an analytical summary of the controversy, see King-Kok Cheung, "The Woman Warrior versus the Chinaman Pacific: Must a Chinese American Critic Choose between Feminism and Heroism?' in Conflicts in Feminism, ed. A feminist work about an abused and uneducated African American woman’s struggle for empowerment, The Color Purple was praised for the depth of its female characters and for its eloquent use of Black English Vernacular. More-over, it has given expression especially to the anxieties of some male members from the Asian-American community over the "correct9' repre-sentation of Chinese-American gender relations. The Color Purple, novel by Alice Walker, published in 1982. and the reception of the subsequent film version by Steven Spielberg (1985), the conflict has centered around questions of "authentic" ethnic representation. Comparable in its intensity, for instance, to the controversy created by the publication of Alice Walker's novel The Color Purple (1982). Appearing only two years after the publication of the controversial anthology of Asian-American writing entitled Aiiieeeee! (1 974), Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior (1976) has managed to provoke a long and heated debate in the Asian ethnic community. ![]()
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