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Understanding Maxine Hong Kingston

Author : Julia H Lee
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611178541
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Maxine Hong Kingston written by Julia H Lee and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length work to examine the entirety of Kingston's unique literary career Maxine Hong Kingston is known for using a distinctive blend of autobiography, fantasy, and folklore to explore the history, experience, and identity of Chinese Americans. This is exemplified in her first book, The Woman Warrior, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction, a bestseller, and a staple on college and university syllabi. Although The Woman Warrior is by far her most celebrated book, Kingston has penned a wide range of essays, fiction, and poetry, including China Men, Tripmaster Monkey, Hawai'i One Summer, To Be a Poet, The Fifth Book of Peace, I Love a Broad Margin to My Life, and the edited volume Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace. Understanding Maxine Hong Kingston is the first book-length work to examine the entirety of Kingston's literary career, from The Woman Warrior to her most recent volume of poetry. Julia H. Lee weaves together scholarly assessments, interviews, biographical information, and her own critical analysis to provide a complete and complex picture of Kingston's works and its impact on memoir, feminist fiction, Asian American literature, and postmodern literature. Lee examines the influence that previous generations of Asian American authors, feminism, and antiwar activism have had on Kingston's work. Offering important contextual information about Kingston's life, Lee shows how it has so often served as a starting point for Kingston's writing. Also studied are her complex attitudes toward genre, and her ever-evolving identity as a novelist, essayist, memoirist, and poet. A comprehensive bibliography of critical secondary sources will be an invaluable resource for readers and critics of Kingston's works.

The Woman Warrior

Author : Maxine Hong Kingston
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307759334
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Woman Warrior written by Maxine Hong Kingston and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • With this book, the acclaimed author created an entirely new form—an exhilarating blend of autobiography and mythology, of world and self, of hot rage and cool analysis. First published in 1976, it has become a classic in its innovative portrayal of multiple and intersecting identities—immigrant, female, Chinese, American. “A classic, for a reason” – Celeste Ng via Twitter As a girl, Kingston lives in two confounding worlds: the California to which her parents have immigrated and the China of her mother’s “talk stories.” The fierce and wily women warriors of her mother’s tales clash jarringly with the harsh reality of female oppression out of which they come. Kingston’s sense of self emerges in the mystifying gaps in these stories, which she learns to fill with stories of her own. A warrior of words, she forges fractured myths and memories into an incandescent whole, achieving a new understanding of her family’s past and her own present.

I Love a Broad Margin to My Life

Author : Maxine Hong Kingston
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307454592
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book I Love a Broad Margin to My Life written by Maxine Hong Kingston and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her singular voice—both humble and brave, touching and humorous—Maxine Hong Kingston gives us a poignant and beautiful memoir-in-verse that captures the wisdom that comes with age. As she reflects on her sixty-five years, she circles from present to past and back, from lunch with a writer friend to the funeral of a Vietnam veteran, from her long marriage to her arrest at a peace march in Washington. On her journeys as writer, peace activist, teacher, and mother, she revisits her most beloved characters—Wittman Ah-Sing, the Tripmaster Monkey, and Fa Mook Lan, the Woman Warrior—and presents us with a beautiful meditation on China then and now. The result is a marvelous account of an American life of great purpose and joy, and the tonic wisdom of a writer we have come to cherish.

A World of Ideas

Author : Bill D. Moyers
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 : 9780385263467
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book A World of Ideas written by Bill D. Moyers and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his bestseller The Power of Myth, Moyers introduced us of the most outstanding minds of our time, Joseph Campbell. Now, he brings us provocative one-on-one interviews with leading scientists, writers, artists, philosophers, and historians, based on a popular PBS series. 40 photos.

Maxine Hong Kingston's Broken Book of Life

Author : Maureen Sabine
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824827847
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (278 download)

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Download or read book Maxine Hong Kingston's Broken Book of Life written by Maureen Sabine and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2004-02-29 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The numerous studies of Maxine Hong Kingston's touchstone work The Woman Warrior fail to take into account the stories in China Men, which were largely written together with those in The Woman Warrior but later published separately. Although Hong Kingston's decision to separate the male and female narratives enabled readers to see the strength of the resulting feminist point of view in The Woman Warrior, the author has steadily maintained that to understand the book fully it was necessary to read its male companion text. Maureen Sabine's ambitious study of The Woman Warrior and China Men aims to bring these divided texts back together with a close reading that looks for the textual traces of the father in The Woman Warrior and shows how the daughter narrator tracks down his history in China Men. She considers theories of intertextuality that open up the possibility of a dynamic interplay between the two books and suggests that the Hong family women and men may be struggling for dialogue with each other even when they appear textually silent or apart.

The Fifth Book of Peace

Author : Maxine Hong Kingston
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307428575
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Fifth Book of Peace written by Maxine Hong Kingston and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long time ago in China, there existed three Books of Peace that proved so threatening to the reigning powers that they had them burned. Many years later Maxine Hong Kingston wrote a Fourth Book of Peace, but it too was burned--in the catastrophic Berkeley-Oakland Hills fire of 1991, a fire that coincided with the death of her father. Now in this visionary and redemptive work, Kingston completes her interrupted labor, weaving fiction and memoir into a luminous meditation on war and peace, devastation and renewal.

China Men

Author : Maxine Hong Kingston
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679723285
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book China Men written by Maxine Hong Kingston and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1989-04-23 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author chronicles the lives of three generations of Chinese men in America, woven from memory, myth and fact. Here's a storyteller's tale of what they endured in a strange new land.

To Be the Poet

Author : Maxine Hong Kingston
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674039637
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book To Be the Poet written by Maxine Hong Kingston and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have almost finished my longbook, Maxine Hong Kingston declares. "Let my life as Poet begin...I won't be a workhorse anymore; I'll be a skylark." To Be the Poet is Kingston's manifesto, the avowal and declaration of a writer who has devoted a good part of her sixty years to writing prose, and who, over the course of this spirited and inspiring book, works out what the rest of her life will be, in poetry.

Tripmaster Monkey

Author : Maxine Hong Kingston
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307787907
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Tripmaster Monkey written by Maxine Hong Kingston and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-02-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driven by his dream to write and stage an epic stage production of interwoven Chinese novelsWittman Ah Sing, a Chinese-American hippie in the late '60s.

Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston

Author : Maxine Hong Kingston
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578060597
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston written by Maxine Hong Kingston and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1998 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a fascinating collection of interviews, renowned author Maxine Hong Kingston talks about her life, her writing, and the role of Asian-Americans in our history. As her books always hover along the hazy line between fiction and memoir, she clarifies the differences and exults in the difficulties of distinguishing between the remembered and the re-created.

Hawai'i One Summer

Author : Maxine Hong Kingston
Publisher : Diversion Books
ISBN 13 : 162681404X
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Hawai'i One Summer written by Maxine Hong Kingston and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2014-08-10 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on the island and its history and traditions from the National Book Award–winning author of The Woman Warrior. In these eleven thought-provoking pieces, acclaimed writer and feminist Maxine Hong Kingston tells stories of Hawai’i filled with both personal experience and wider perspective. From a recipient of the National Medal of Arts and numerous other honors, the essays in this collection provide readers with a generous sampling of Kingston’s exquisite angle of vision, her balanced and clear-sighted prose, and her stunning insight that awakens one to a wealth of knowledge.

The Woman Warrior, China Men

Author : Maxine Hong Kingston
Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Woman Warrior, China Men written by Maxine Hong Kingston and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2005-04-12 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author recalls her experiences growing up Chinese-American in California and her mother's stories of strong women warriors in her native China, and also discusses the history of Chinese men in America from those who worked on the transcontinental railroad to those who fought in Vietnam.

Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior

Author : Sau-ling Cynthia Wong
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195116542
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior written by Sau-ling Cynthia Wong and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the continued expansion of the literary canon, multicultural works of modern literary fiction and autobiography have assumed an increasing importance for students and scholars of American literature. This exciting new series assembles key documents and criticism concerning these works that have so recently become central components of the American literature curriculum. Each casebook will reprint documents relating to the work's historical context and reception, present the best in critical essays, and when possible, feature an interview of the author. The series will provide, for the first time, an accessible forum in which readers can come to a fuller understanding of these contemporary masterpieces and the unique aspects of American ethnic, racial, or cultural experience that they so ably portray. This case book presents a thought-provoking overview of critical debates surrounding The Woman Warrior, perhaps the best known Asian American literary work. The essays deal with such issues as the reception by various interpretive communities, canon formation, cultural authenticity, fictionality in autobiography, and feminist and poststructuralist subjectivity. The eight essays are supplemented an interview with the author and a bibliography.

Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace

Author : Maxine Hong Kingston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935646235
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace written by Maxine Hong Kingston and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace" is a harvest of creative, redemptive storytelling-nonfiction, fiction, and poetry-spanning five wars and written by those most profoundly affected by it. This poignant collection, compiled from Kingston's healing workshops, contains the distilled wisdom of survivors of five wars, including combatants, war widows, spouses, children, conscientious objectors, and veterans of domestic abuse. " Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace" includes accounts from people that grew up in military families, served as medics in the thick of war, or came home to homelessness. All struggle with trauma - PTSD, substance abuse, and other consequences of war and violence. Through their extraordinary writings, readers witness worlds coming apart and being put back together again through liberating insight, community, and the deep transformation that is possible only by coming to grips with the past. For more than 15 years, National Book Award-winning author Maxine Hong Kingston has led writing-and-meditation workshops for veterans and their families. The contributors to this volume are part of this community of writers working together to heal the trauma of war through art. Maxine Hong Kingston's books-" The Woman Warrior, China Men, Tripmaster Monkey, The Fifth Book of Peace," and others-have won critical praise and national awards. President Bill Clinton presented her with a National Humanities Medal in 1997.

Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston

Author : Maxine Hong Kingston
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578060597
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (65 download)

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A Study Guide for Maxine Hong Kingston's "On Discovery"

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Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410354466
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Maxine Hong Kingston's "On Discovery" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Deceit and Other Possibilities

Author : Vanessa Hua
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1640093486
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Deceit and Other Possibilities written by Vanessa Hua and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A] searing debut." —i>O, The Oprah Magazine In her powerful collection, first published in 2016 and now featuring new stories, Vanessa Hua gives voice to immigrant families navigating a shifting America. Tied to their ancestral and adopted homelands in ways unimaginable in generations past, these memorable characters span both worlds but belong to none, illustrating the conflict between self and society, tradition and change. This all–new edition of Deceit and Other Possibilities marks the emergence of a remarkable writer.