Representing history in Amy Tan's The Kitchen God's Wife.

From: MELUS | Date: June 22, 2003| Author: Adams, Bella | Copyright information

"Historical literature" is often understood according to binary logic, with critics tending to privilege either phenomenalism or theoreticism. A phenomenalist approach assumes that historical literature is a reliable source of information about past experiences, and a theoretical approach argues that "'events' are never not discursively constituted and that the language of historiography is always also language" (Spivak, In Other Worlds 242). In short, historical literature is gene...

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