Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston

Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston
Title Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston PDF eBook
Author Maxine Hong Kingston
Publisher Univ. Press of Mississippi
Pages 276
Release 1998
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9781578060597

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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.

The Woman Warrior

The Woman Warrior
Title The Woman Warrior PDF eBook
Author Maxine Hong Kingston
Publisher Vintage
Pages 226
Release 2010-09-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0307759334

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • 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. • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER “A classic, for a reason.” —Celeste Ng, bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts, 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.

China Men

China Men
Title China Men PDF eBook
Author Maxine Hong Kingston
Publisher Vintage
Pages 321
Release 1989-04-23
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0679723285

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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.

I Love a Broad Margin to My Life

I Love a Broad Margin to My Life
Title I Love a Broad Margin to My Life PDF eBook
Author Maxine Hong Kingston
Publisher Vintage
Pages 241
Release 2012-02-14
Genre Poetry
ISBN 0307454592

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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.

Tripmaster Monkey

Tripmaster Monkey
Title Tripmaster Monkey PDF eBook
Author Maxine Hong Kingston
Publisher Vintage
Pages 352
Release 2011-02-09
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0307787907

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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.

To Be the Poet

To Be the Poet
Title To Be the Poet PDF eBook
Author Maxine Hong Kingston
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 144
Release 2002-09-16
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780674007918

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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. Taking readers along with her, this celebrated writer gathers advice from her gifted contemporaries and from sages, critics, and writers whom she takes as ancestors. She consults her past, her conscience, her time--and puts together a volume at once irreverent and deeply serious, playful and practical, partaking of poetry throughout as it pursues the meaning, the possibility, and the power of the life of the poet. A manual on inviting poetry, on conjuring the elusive muse, To Be the Poet is also a harvest of poems, from charms recollected out of childhood to bursts of eloquence, wonder, and waggish wit along the way to discovering what it is to be a poet.

A World of Ideas : Conversations with Thoughtful Men and Women about American Life Today and the Ideas Shaping Our Future

A World of Ideas : Conversations with Thoughtful Men and Women about American Life Today and the Ideas Shaping Our Future
Title A World of Ideas : Conversations with Thoughtful Men and Women about American Life Today and the Ideas Shaping Our Future PDF eBook
Author Bill D. Moyers
Publisher
Pages 530
Release 1989
Genre
ISBN 9780385263467

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