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Adolescence, female: in America, 133; and puberty, 118–122, 128, 143, 147, 189; and rites of passage, 42, 120; of The Woman Warrior narrator, 3, 17, 52, 110, 120, 133, 144, 162. See also Alcott, Louisa May; Incest; Psychological problems: eating disorders Adultery. See Women: adultery. See also Hawthorne, Nathaniel; “No Name Woman”; Taboo-transgression “Adventures of Lo Bun Sun, The” (China Men), 117, 196 Aging, 9, 110–112, 114, 162, 183 Ahern, Emily M., 119 Ah Goong. See under Grandfathers. See also Freud, Sigmund: fetishism; “Grandfather of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, The” Alcott, Louisa May: intertextual influence of, 12, 38, 160–167. See also Intertextuality “American Father, The” (China Men), 88, 117, 157–158, 180, 195–197 Amnesia. See China Men: memory and repression in; Woman Warrior, The: memory and repression in Angel Island (Immigrant Detention Center in San Francisco), 86, 113, 190; and poems of protest in, 113, 193 Anger, as theme. See under China Men; Woman Warrior, The Angry Dragon, year of the, 73 “At the Western Palace” (The Woman Warrior), 69, 73, 77–78, 90, 94, 98–102 Auto/biography. See under Writing, Maxine Hong Kingston’s practice. See also China Men: auto/biographical features; and Woman Warrior, The: auto/biographical features Bakhtin, Mikhail: dialogism and heteroglossia , 5, 20–21, 23, 69, 83, 130, 148. See also Intertextuality: and the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin “Ballad of Mulan,” 31, 74, 94 Bammer, Angelika, 178 Barrett, Elizabeth, 148 Beauvoir, Simone de, 161 Bell, Vikki, 134, 184–185 Benjamin, Jessica, 46, 84, 148. See also Intertextuality: and intersubjectivity Blauvelt, William Satake, 41 Bonetti, Kay, 16, 25, 32 Boose, Lynda, 116, 121 Brave Orchid. See China Men: Brave Orchid in; Woman Warrior, The: mother (Brave Orchid) in; Kingston, Maxine Hong: mother “Brother in Vietnam, The” (China Men), 8, 16, 35, 67, 70, 72–75, 167, 184–186, 191 Browning, Robert, 148 Carroll, Lewis (Charles Dodgson), and the intertextual influence of: Alice in Wonderland , 12, 143, 158–159; Alice through the Looking Glass, 162, 164, 169, 172–173 Chaucer, Geoffrey, and The Pardoner’s Tale, 176–177 Cheung, King-Kok, 2–3, 18, 182 Children’s imaginary literature, 12, 159. See also Alcott, Louisa May; Carroll, Lewis; Wong, Jade Snow 221 Index Chin, Frank: attacks on Maxine Hong Kingston and her writing, 40, 82–83, 184; influence of, 41, 78 Chin, Marilyn, 13, 25, 160, 180, 195 China Men: alternative narratives in, 45, 113, 177; anger as theme in, 116, 165, 169; appreciation for men in, 1–3, 18–19, 52, 168, 173, 181; auto/biographical features of, 1, 33, 52; Brave Orchid in, 12, 73, 74, 75, 87–88, 157–158, 165–166, 168–169, 173, 180; daughter’s search for the father in, 2, 11, 13, 53, 70, 115, 117, 156, 164–165, 167, 188–189; emasculation, 50, 171, 173; family history, 49–50; father-daughter relationship in, 116, 148–149, 160, 195–196; father places in, 12, 19, 148, 157–160, 163, 195–197; gender characterization in, 79–80; generational conflict in, 111, 127; intertextuality in, 29–34, 43–45, 79, 86, 95, 101, 117–118, 130–131, 142, 157, 186, 191, 197; Lovely Orchid in, 74; memory and repression in, 7, 48–49, 79–80; 83, 88, 169, 184–186, 190; movies in, 95, 140, 185; paternal regard for women and children in, 70, 165, 171–178, 184–187; psychic life in, 1, 7, 19, 48–49, 190–192; racism in, 90, 95–96, 173, 183, 185; rationale for title of, 12, 32, 90; as sequel to The Woman Warrior, 1–2, 17–18, 22; silence of father in, 6, 7, 28–29, 68–69, 81, 83, 102, 148, 188; sojourner history in, 12, 71, 103, 173–177; “Talking Men” in, 11, 156; transcontinental railroad in, 73, 123, 144, 173–174, 176; violence in, 111; war and peace in, 8, 72–79, 164, 186–187, 191; women’s stories in, 39, 168. See also individual chapter names. See also under Father (BaBa); Grandfathers; Grandmothers China Men and The Woman Warrior: as book of life, 1, 7, 9, 16, 49, 82–83, 92, 104, 198; as family romances, 43, 199; as gender companion texts, 1–2, 20, 22, 67, 199; gender division of, 1–2, 4, 7, 9, 16–18, 28, 33, 49–51, 67, 71, 86–87, 104, 147, 163; intertextuality of, 2–3, 7, 8, 18, 43, 54, 67–68, 71–72, 90, 93–95, 102–104, 111–113, 115, 137, 148...