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    Maxine Hong Kingston

    Dennis Abrams

    Since the publication of her first book, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts , Maxine Hong Kingston has been a presence on the literary scene. With a…

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    Maxine Hong Kingston

    Helena Grice

    Part of the Contemporary World Writers series, this book talks about Maxine Hong Kingston - one of America’s most successful writers. It covers Maxine Hong Kingston’s works, including her fiction…

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    Maxine Hong Kingston

    Diane Simmons

    This book-length study of Chinese American author Kinsgton includes insight on the historical context of The Woman Warrior and theoretical aspects of Tripmaster Monkey.

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    Understanding Maxine Hong Kingston

    Julia H. Lee

    Weaves together scholarly assessments, interviews, biographical information, and the author’s own critical analysis to provide a complete and complex picture of Maxine Hong Kingston’s works and their impact on memoir…

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    Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston

    In this collection of interviews Maxine Hong Kingston talks about her life, her writing, and her objectives. As she answers her critics and readers, she both clarifies the differences and…

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    Maxine Hong Kingston: A Critical Companion

    Edelma D. Huntley

    Maxine Hong Kingston’s first book, Woman Warrior gained instant popularity and critical success, winning top national literary awards as well as a place on the best seller list.

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    Critical Essays on Maxine Hong Kingston

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    Covers the works of author Maxine Hong Kingston.

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    A Study Guide for Maxine Hong Kingston’s On Discovery

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    A Study Guide for Maxine Hong Kingston’s On Discovery, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…

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    Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior: A Casebook

    Asian Americanist Sau-ling C. Wong presents an overview of critical issues surrounding Kingston’s contemporary classic, such as reception by various interpretive communities, canon formation, cultural authenticity, fictionality in autobiography, and…

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    Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior: A Casebook

    An overview of critical issues surrounding Kingson’s ‘contemporary classic’, such as reception by various interpretive communities, canon formation, cultural authenticity, fictionality in autobiography, and feminist and poststructuralist subjectivity. Eight critical…

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    Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book

    Maxine Hong Kingston

    A highly entertaining and gloriously reviewed novel, by the author of the bestsellers The Woman Warrior and China Men. A dazzling leap of imaginative sympathy (and) narrative magic .–The New…

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    China Men

    Maxine Hong Kingston

    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…

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    I Love a Broad Margin To My Life

    Maxine Hong Kingston

    Born in 1940, one of eight children, Maxine Hong Kingston is the daughter of Chinese immigrants to America. This memoir recalls her first major work The Woman Warrior in which…

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    Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace

    Maxine Hong Kingston

    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…

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    The Fifth Book of Peace

    Maxine Hong Kingston

    Divided into four sections - Fire , Paper , Water and Earth , this title is neither fiction, nor autobiography nor memoir, but a unique form of Chinese talk-story in…

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    The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

    Maxine Hong Kingston

    A first-generation Chinese-American woman recounts growing up in America within a tradition-bound Chinese family, and confronted with Chinese ghosts from the past and non-Chinese ghosts of the present.

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    To Be the Poet

    Maxine Hong Kingston

    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…

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    I Love a Broad Margin to My Life

    Maxine Hong Kingston

    In her singular voice–humble, elegiac, practical–writer, peace activist, teacher, and mother Kingston sets out to reflect on aging as she turns 65.

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    A Study Guide for Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior

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    A Study Guide for Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…

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    The Art of Parody: Maxine Hong Kingston’s Use of Chinese Sources

    Yan Gao

    Maxine Hong Kingston’s use of Chinese sources is both controversial and intricate. This study, grounded in a cross-cultural perspective, systematically analyzes Kingston’s employment of Chinese sources in The Woman Warrior…

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    The Female Bildungsroman by Toni Morrison and Maxine Hong Kingston: A Postmodern Reading

    Pin-chia Feng,Pin-Chia Feng,Maxine Hong Kingston (Senior Lecturer, Department of English University of California, Berkeley)

    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…

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    Articulate Silences: Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston and Joy Kogawa

    King-Kok Cheung

    In this pathbreaking book, King-Kok Cheung sheds new light on the thematic and rhetoncal uses of silence in fiction by three Asian American women: Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, and…

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    Articulate Silences: Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston and Joy Kogawa

    King-Kok Cheung

    In this pathbreaking book, King-Kok Cheung sheds new light on the thematic and rhetoncal uses of silence in fiction by three Asian American women: Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, and…

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    The Woman Warrior, China Men: Introduction by Mary Gordon

    Maxine Hong Kingston

    Here-for the first time in one volume-are two classic, brilliantly original works on the experience of Chinese immigrants in America. In both books the acclaimed author mines her family’s past…

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    In the Time of the Butterflies

    Julia Alvarez

    Set during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republica in 1960, this extraordinary novel tells the story the Mirabal sisters, three young wives and mothers who…

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    The Woman Warrior

    Maxine Hong Kingston

    With an introduction by Xiaolu Guo. A classic memoir set during the Chinese revolution of the 1940s and inspired by folklore, providing a unique insight into the life of an…

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    Class Definitions: On the Lives and Writings of Maxine Hong Kingston, Sandra Cisneros, and Dorothy Allison

    Michelle M. Tokarczyk

    How does working-class status intersect with gender, race, sexual orientation, and religion? How do working-class status and other identities play out in the lives and work of individual writers? This…

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    Maxine Hong Kingston: The Woman Warrior, China Men, Tripmaster Monkey, and Other Writings.

    The largest and most comprehensive edition of our foremost Asian American writer- three classic books and additional writings, many rare, that together offer a vivid and searching portrait of immigrant…

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    A Study Guide for Maxine Hong Kingston’s Women Warrior: Memoirs of Girlhood Among Ghosts

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    A study guide for Maxine Hong Kingston’s Women Warrior: Memoirs of Girlhood Among Ghosts , excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Literary themes for Students: War and Peace series. This concise study…

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    The Western Reinvention of Chinese Literature, 1910-2010: From Ezra Pound to Maxine Hong Kingston

    This book surveys influential readings and rewritings of the Chinese literary tradition by Western writers over the past century, from Ezra Pound and Haroldo de Campos to Pearl Buck, Robert…

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    The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

    Maxine Hong Kingston (Senior Lecturer, Department of English University of California, Berkeley)

    For use in schools and libraries only. A first-generation Chinese-American woman recounts growing up in America within a tradition-bound Chinese family, confronted with Chinese ghosts from the past and non-Chinese…

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    Maxine Hong Kingston’s Broken Book of Life: An Intertextual Study of the Woman Warrior and China Men

    Maureen Sabine

    Originally conceived as a single work, Maxine Hong Kingston’s autobiographical novels The Woman Warrior and China Men tell the story of one Asian American family from various gendered perspectives. In…

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    Retold Stories, Untold Histories: Maxine Hong Kingston and Leslie Marmon Silko on the Politics of Imagining the Past

    Joanna Ziarkowska

    Retold Stories, Untold Histories concentrates on how challenging questions concerning the nature of historical representation, the formation of national/ethnic identities, and creative agendas are addressed in the diverse and inspiring…

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    The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

    Maxine Hong Kingston (Senior Lecturer, Department of English University of California, Berkeley)

    Sensitive account of growing up female and Chinese-American in a California laundry.

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    Stories of Resilience in Childhood: The Narratives of Maya Angelou, Maxine Hong Kingston, Richard Rodriguez, John Edgar Wideman, and Tobias Wolff

    Daniel D. Challener

    What builds resilience in children? Originally published in 1997, this book is an effort to understand better what contributes to a child’s success and resilience . The source of information…

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    Stories of Resilience in Childhood: The Narratives of Maya Angelou, Maxine Hong Kingston, Richard Rodriguez, John Edgar Wideman, and Tobias Wolff

    Daniel D. Challener

    What builds resilience in children? Originally published in 1997, this book is an effort to understand better what contributes to a child’s success and resilience . The source of information…

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    A Queen’s Journey: An Unfinished Novel about Hawaii’s Last Monarch

    James D Houston

    An unfinished novel about the last Queen of Hawaii, Liliuokalani. and her attempt to prevent annexation of her homeland by the United States. A forgotten bit of history and the…

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    The Problems of ethnic female Adolescents as portrayed in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior, Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street

    Anna Watorczyk

    Inhaltsangabe: Abstract: African-American, Chinese-American and Mexican-American female adolescents are representatives of minority groups in the United States. The three groups of ethnic girls were assigned derogative stereotypes by many Euro-American…

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    The Literature of California, Volume 1: Native American Beginnings to 1945

    A collection that includes stories, legends, and songs of the indigenous tribes. It also includes Mother Lode tales by Mark Twain and Bret Harte, the first signs of California poetry…

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    Die Sehnsucht Nach Den Anderen: Eine Studie Zum Verhaeltnis Von Subjekt Und Gesellschaft in Den Autobiographien Von Lillian Hellman, Maya Angelou Und Maxine Hong Kingston

    Susanne Mayer

    Die Autobiographie lebt von unserer Sehnsucht nach den anderen - sie lockt mit dem, was einst die Aufgabe des Mythos war, mit der Einschreibung des Subjekts in die Gesellschaft. Die…

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