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Understanding Maxine Hong Kingston
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ISBN: 9781611178548 1611178541 1611178533 9781611178531 Year: 2018 Publisher: Baltimore, Maryland : Baltimore, Md. : Project Muse, Project MUSE,

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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 : memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts
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ISBN: 0394400674 Year: 1977 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Knopf

To be the poet
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ISBN: 0674039637 9780674039636 9780674007918 0674007913 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press

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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.


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Retold stories, untold histories
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ISBN: 1443864528 9781443864527 144384957X 9781443849579 1306992575 Year: 2013 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Maxine Hong Kingston
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ISBN: 1781701008 1847791719 9781847791719 9781781701003 0719064023 9780719064029 0719064031 9780719064036 9780719064029 0719064023 1847795633 9781847795632 Year: 2013 Publisher: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press,

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Since the publication of The Woman Warrior in 1976, Maxine Hong Kingston has gained a reputation as one of the most popular -- and controversial -- writers in the Asian American literary tradition. In this volume Grice traces Kingston's development as a writer and cultural activist through both ethnic and feminist discourses, investigating her novels, occasional writings and her two-book 'life-writing project'.The publication of The Woman Warrior not only propelled Kingston into the mainstream literary limelight, but also precipitated a vicious and ongoing controversy in Asian American letters


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A Survey of Multicultural San Francisco Bay Literature, 1955-1979 : Ishmael Reed, Maxine Hong Kingston, Frank Chin, and the Beat Generation
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ISBN: 9780773444003 0773444009 9780773438286 0773438289 Year: 2009 Publisher: Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press,

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This work examines how writers in the San Francisco Bay Area worked to develop a multiculturalist American literature. This study counteracts popular narratives of multiculturalism's boom in the late 1980s and early 1990s by showing that a large group of culturally eclectic writers in the Bay Area were re-envisioning American identity through a multiculturalist looking glass many years earlier.

Writing tricksters : mythic gambols in American ethnic literature
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ISBN: 0520206568 0585162166 0520206541 Year: 1997 Publisher: Berkeley ; Los Angeles ; London University of California Press

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Bedrieger in de literatuur --- Ethnic groups in literature --- Ethnicity in literature --- Ethnicité dans la littérature --- Ethnische groepen in de literatuur --- Etnisch bewustzijn in de literatuur --- Femmes issues des minorités dans la littérature --- Fourbe dans la litterature --- Groupes ethniques dans la littérature --- Minority women in literature --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Narration (Rhétorique) --- Narrative writing --- Trickster in literature --- Verhaal (Retoriek) --- Vrouwen van minderheden in de literatuur --- American fiction --- Tricksters in literature --- American prose literature --- Literature and folklore --- Women and literature --- American Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- Women authors --- History and criticism --- Minority authors --- History --- Folklore and literature --- Literature and folk-lore --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- 20th century --- United States --- Kingston, Maxine Hong --- Criticism and interpretation --- Erdrich, Louise --- Morrison, Toni --- Literature --- Folklore --- American literature --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Tricksters in literature. --- Minority women in literature. --- Ethnic groups in literature. --- Ethnicity in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Erdrich, Karen Louise --- Hong, Maxine Jinsidun --- Hong, Maxine Ting Ting --- Jinsidun, Makexin Hong --- Tang, Tingting, --- 汤亭亭 --- 洪婷婷 --- Wofford, Chloe Anthony --- Morrisonová, Toni --- מוריסון, טוני --- AMERICAN FICTION --- AMERICAN PROSE LITERATURE --- TRICKSTER IN LITERATURE --- LITERATURE AND FOLKLORE --- WOMEN AND LITERATURE --- ETHNICITY IN LITERATURE --- NARRATION --- ALLEN (PAULA GUNN) --- ANZALDUA (GLORIA) --- ERDRICH (LOUISE) --- HARRIS (TRUDIER) --- HYNES (WILLIAM) --- KINGSTON (MAXINE HONG) --- TuSMITH (BONNIE) --- VIZENOR (GERALD) --- POSTMODERNISME (LITTERATURE) --- MORRISON (TONI), 1931 --- -WOMEN AUTHORS --- 20th CENTURY --- MINORITY AUTHORS --- HISTORY AND CRITICISM --- U.S. --- HISTORY --- 20TH CENTURY --- RHETORIC --- WOMAN WARRIOR, THE --- ETATS-UNIS

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