This study traces the textual construction of identity in the female Bildungsroman of Toni
Morrison and Maxine Hong Kingston. Deploying the «politics of rememory» in their textual
representation of female development Morrison and Kingston unearth the multiple layers of
repressed memories including personal stories specific cultural history and racial
experience of African- and Asian-American women. This book analyzes the working through of
repressed memories in Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Sula and Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior
and China Men. The gap between Bildung and anti-Bildung in these texts highlights the multiple
oppression faced by women of color and interrogates the established standards and value system
of the hegemonic culture.
