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Understanding Maxine Hong Kingston
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Title
Understanding Maxine Hong Kingston [electronic resource] / Julia H. Lee.
ISBN
1611178541
9781611178548
9781611178531
Published
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2018] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 PDF (136 pages)).
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
Description based on print version record.
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Summary
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.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2018 Complete.
Project MUSE - 2018 Literature.
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Print version:
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 05, 2018
Series
Understanding contemporary American literature
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [121]-130) and index.
Contents
1. Understanding Maxine Hong Kingston
2. The woman warrior : memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts
3. China men
4. Tripmaster monkey : his fake book
5. Hawai'i one summer, The fifth book of peace, and Veterans of war, veterans of peace
6. To be the poet and I love a broad margin to my life.
Genre/Form
Electronic books.
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Project Muse, distributor.
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