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On the Legacy of Maxine Hong Kingston
PreviewThis book is a collection of recent scholarship on Maxine Hong Kingston, gathered on the occasion of the very first conference ever devoted exclusively to Kingston and to celebrate her opera omnia.
Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong KingstonIn this collection of interviews Kingston talks about her life, her writing, and her objectives. From the first, her books have hovered along the hazy line between fiction and nonfiction, memoir and imagination.
I Love a Broad Margin To My Life
Maxine Hong KingstonMaxine Hong Kingston, author of such seminal works as The Woman Warrior and China Men, is one of the most important American writers of her generation.
Maxine Hong Kingston: A Critical Companion
E. D. HuntleyExamines the fiction and role in introducing the Asian American experience to mainstream readers through Maxine Hong Kinston and her three narrative works.
Hawai'i One Summer
Maxine Hong Kingston" The essays provide readers with a generous sampling of Kingston's signature: her exquisite angle of vision, her balanced and clear-sighted prose, and her stunning insight that awakens one to a wealth of knowledge.
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 the course of this spirited and inspiring book, works out what the rest of her ...
Maxine Hong Kingston
Helena GriceIn 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'.
Maxine Hong Kingston
Dennis AbramsProfiles the life and accomplishments of the Chinese-American author of "The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts."
Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace
Maxine Hong KingstonThe contributors to this volume are part of this community of writers working together to heal the trauma of war through art.
China Men
Maxine Hong KingstonThe 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. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book
Maxine Hong KingstonDriven 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. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Reciting America: Culture and Cliché in Contemporary U.S. ...
Christopher DouglasDouglas looks at novels by Russell Banks, Ralph Ellison, Maxine Hong Kingston, and T. Coraghessan Boyle to explore how the cliches of American national rhetoric define American identity.
Isabel Allende: A Critical Companion
Karen Castellucci Cox... Songer Jamaica Kincaid by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert Revisiting Stephen King by Sharon A. Russell Barbara Kingsolver by Mary Jean DeMarr Maxine Hong Kingston by E. D. Huntley Terry McMillan by Paulette Richards Larry McMurtry by ...
Julia Alvarez: A Critical Companion
Silvio Sirias... Keillor by Marcia Songer Jamaica Kincaid by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert Barbara Kingsolver by Mary Jean DeMarr Maxine Hong Kingston by E. D. Huntley Terry McMillan by Paulette Richards Larry McMurtry by John M. Reilly Toni Morrison ...
Language Research Bulletin: Gogaku Kenkyū
More editionsYinghong Li English Language Program International Christian University This paper examines the issue of identity construction, in particular female identity construction, as expressed in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior and ...
Maxine Hong Kingston
Helena Grice16 Robert J. Topmiller, The Lotus Unleashed: The Buddhist Peace Movement in South Vietnam, 1964-1966 (Knoxville: University Press of Kentucky, 2002), pp. 8- 9. Thich Nhat Hanh fled South Vietnam in 1966 after a failed attempt on his life.
Revisiting Mary Higgins Clark: A Critical Companion
Linda De Roche... Russell Barbara Kingsolver by Mary Jean DeMarr Maxine Hong Kingston by E. D. Huntley Terry McMillan by Paulette Richards Larry McMurtry by John M. Reilley Toni Morrison by Missy Dehn Kubitschek Walter Mosley by Charles E. Wilson, ...
Maxine Hong Kingston
Deborah L. MadsenThe related "Literary Masterpieces volume explores a major title from this author's works in detail. Finally, the "Literary Topics volume places the author and work within a relevant literary movement or genre.
Maxine Hong Kingston's Broken Book of Life: An Intertextual ...
Maureen Alice SabineMaureen 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 ...
A Study Guide for Richard Rodriguez's "Hunger of Memory: The ...
Gale, Cengage LearningCouser, G. Thomas, "Biculturalism in Contemporary Autobiography: Richard Rodriguez and Maxine Hong Kingston," in Altered Egos: Authority in American Autobiography, Oxford University Press, 1989, pp. 21045. Crowley, Paul, "An Ancient ...
The Public Sector in Hong Kong
Ian ScottSweeting, Anthony, “Hong Kong Education within Historical Processes” in Education and Society in Hong Kong: Toward One Country and Two Systems, ed . GerardA. Postiglione (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1992). — A Phoenix ...
Hong Kong Culture and Society in the New Millennium: Hong ...
PreviewChallenges for Hong Kong SAR New Wave cinema”, Journal of Chinese Cinemas 6. 2 (2012): 127. On the minor conceptualised within Hong Kong cinema see Ka-fai Yau, “Cinema 3: Towards A “Minor Hong Kong Cinema”, Cultural Studies ...
China, Hong Kong, and the Long 1970s: Global Perspectives
Preview... Kong) (Hong Kong: Wanli Shudian, 2013), 146–151. 2. Chan Lau Kit-Ching, “ The United States and the Question of Hong Kong, 1941–1945,” Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 19 (1979), 1–20; Chi-kwan Mark, ...
Class Definitions: On the Lives and Writings of Maxine Hong ...
Michelle M. TokarczykSee in particular books by Jake Ryan and Charles Sackray, Janet Zandy, Sherri Lee Linkon, C.L. Barney Dews and Carolyn Leste Law, Julia Penelope, Michelle M. Tokarczyk and Elizabeth A. Fay, and Michael Zweig. Other pioneers in the ...
The Vital Records of Kingston, New Hampshire, 1694-1994
Judith A. ArseneaultHere is a faithful transcription of the birth, marriage, and death records of the town of Kingston, New Hampshire.
Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action ...
Meaghan MorrisHong Kong Connections brings leading film scholars together to explore the uptake of Hong Kong cinema in Japan, Korea, India, Australia, France and the US as well as its links with Taiwan, Singapore and the Chinese mainland.
Surrey Archaeological Collections, Relating to the History ...
More editionsWilliam Looker, a Kingston grocer, was Benjamin Looker's cousin and himself owned a number of lots on the estate; and John Collings, though not a shareholder, was the third trustee of the Kingston Building Society (which was founded in ...
Academic Capitalism in the Age of Globalization
PreviewPostiglione,GerardA.2002.“The Transformation of Academic Autonomy in Hong Kong.” In Crisis and Transformation in China's HongKong,edited by MingKou Chanand Alvin Y.So, 307–21. Hong Kong:Hong KongUniversity Press. ———. 2006.
Autobiographical Inscriptions: Form, Personhood, and the ...
Barbara RodriguezAn application of speech act theory to Kingston's The Woman Warrior, as Victoria Meyers shows, identifies Kingston's motivation for reconstructing the myths and stories of her community. "Myths, even when taken as fiction, have a relationship ...
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