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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.
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.
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.
Constructs of "home" in Gloria Naylor's Quartet
Claudia DrielingIn Conversations with Gloria Naylor, edited by Maxine Lavon Montgomery, 105– 10. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2004. Bonetti, Kay. “An Interview with Gloria Naylor.” In Conversations with Gloria Naylor, edited by Maxine ...
Mistress & a Million Dollars / Satin & A Scandalous Affair: ...
Maxine SullivanMistress & a Million Dollars Maxine Sullivan
The Tycoon's Blackmailed Mistress
Maxine SullivanWhat better revenge for betrayal than taking possession of the betrayer's wife?
Secret Son, Convenient Wife
Maxine SullivanTate Chandler had never wanted a woman as much as he'd wanted Gemma Watkins—until the day she'd betrayed him.
The Millionaire's Seductive Revenge
Maxine SullivanMillionaire Brant Matthews's desire for his secretary only fully ignited when she became engaged to his business partner.
The Fiction of Gloria Naylor: Houses and Spaces of Resistance
Maxine Lavon MontgomeryBut what truly distinguishes this volume is its engagement with African American vernacular forms and twentieth-century political movements.
Maxine Hong Kingston
Dennis AbramsProfiles the life and accomplishments of the Chinese-American author of "The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts."
The Stone Crown
Malcolm WalkerEmlyn and Maxine's paths cross in modern day Scotland when they are both drawn to the ancient site known as Sleeper's Spinney, and together they unleash an unearthly power by removing a wooden carving.
Fresh Kills
Reggie NadelsonWith his wife Maxine out of town, Artie Cohen is alone in Manhattan when his nephew Billy Farone is released for a couple of weeks from the young offenders' institution where he has been since he stabbed Heshey Shank to death.
A Red Polka Dot in a World Full of Plaid
Varian JohnsonWhen she learns that her mother lied and her father is still alive, sarcastic, witty, eighteen-year-old Maxine sets off with her best friend on a cross-country quest to meet him.
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.
The nature of difference: sciences of race in the United ...
Evelynn Maxine HammondsA collection of wide-ranging primary source material that tracks the shifting relationships between race and science through two centuries of American history.
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.
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'.
One-Block Wonders Cubed!: Dramatic Designs, New Techniques, ...
Maxine RosenthalNew techniques and design strategies using simple geometric shapes give you dramatic quilt imagery that seems to defy logic! Take the ordinary and turn it into something extraordinary with this book.
Current Biography Yearbook
Maxine Block... descent, Grover Glenn Norquist was born on October 19, 1956, the first of the four children of Warren Elliott and Carol (Lutz) Norquist. He grew up in Weston, Massachusetts, one of the wealthiest suburbs in the Boston area. His father was a ...
Black American Literature Forum
More editionsA Pilgrimage to the Origins: The Apocalypse as Structure and Theme in Toni Morrison's Sula Maxine Lavon Montgomery The destruction of the Bottom, a Black community located in the hills above the fictional town of Medallion, Ohio, is a ...
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.
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