Abstract:
This paper engages in a critical discussion of one of the most basic concems underlying
contemporary literary feminism: what does it mean to “speak as" and “for" women? The
paper reviews some of the conflicting theories of white and non-white literary feminista on
the politics of representation, while analyzing Maxine Hong Kingston's memoir The Woman
Warrior. It argues that Kingston’s memoir is a text with a feminist agenda, which could be
located in the text’s strategies of narrativization. Finally the paper demonstrates how The
Woman Warrior calis for a redefinition of the genre of minority literatura, while urging for a
rethinking of western literary practicos.
