Maxine hong kingston, in this book and its companion, china men, gives us one of the very best depictions of what it means to be a second generation inhabitant of this land when your parents have come from a totally alien culture. List of books and articles about maxine hong kingston. Her first book, the woman warrior, blended fiction, memoir and myth in innovative ways. All i really want to do is sit and read or lie down and read or eat and read or shit and read. His fake book by kingston, maxine hong and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Why this description of the chineseamerican experience. But her mother talked stories in warning, and these. And is any culture more alien to us than that of china before the revolution.
The daughter of chinese immigrants, poet, memoirist, and fiction writer maxine hong kingston was born in stockton, california, and educated at the university of californiaberkeley. She is a professor at the university of california. Aug 19, 2019 our august pick for the pbs newshour new york times book club, now read this, is maxine hong kingstons 1976 memoir the woman warrior, which was chosen for us by author celeste ng. Memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts 1976, and china men 1980, are classics of the new american canon, and are praised by critics for a magical variety of prose that seamlessly blends myth and fact in its. Maxine hong kingston biography award, hawaii, university. She has written one novel, tripmaster monkey, a story depicting a character she was born as maxine ting ting hong to a laundry house owner in stockton, california. Maxine hong kingston is senior lecturer for creative writing at the university of california, berkeley. Maxine hong kingston the woman warrior maxine hong kingston is senior lecturer for creative writing at the university of california, berkeley. My mother said that i could talk when i was born and that i spoke in poetry and also that i talk story. Memoir of a girlhood among ghosts, maxine hong kingston has become one of the bestknown and most widely taught of living american authors, and has pioneered the now burgeoning field of asianamerican letters. October 27, 1940 is a chinese american author and professor emerita at the university of california, berkeley, where she graduated with a ba in english in 1962. Memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts and china men works of nonfiction.
With your download, get the 21 best papers relevant to this one, including 20 top related papers. Myth, legend, history, and biography are so seamlessly blended in maxine hong kingston s books that it is often difficult to know how to categorize them. While sold as a biography, china men is not strictly nonfiction, and incorporates many myths and beliefs that contributed to each mans formation. For her memoirs and fiction, the fifth book of peace, the woman warrior, china men. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the national book award, the national book critics circle award, the presidentially conferred national humanities medal, the medal for distinguished contribution to american. Picador classic picador classics main market edition by kingston, maxine hong 2015 paperback jan 1, 1709. When maxine hong kingston was growing up in stockton, california, she listened to her parents stories and memories of china, and they became part of her story. In april, 2007, kingston was awarded the northern california book award special award in publishing for veterans of war, veterans of peace. The woman warrior is a memoir by maxine hong kingston that was first published in 1976. How closely they guarded their lives, those chineseamericans pressing the clothes, so that we were never able to focus on them or comprehend their outlook.
Among her works are the woman warrior 1976, awarded the national book critics circle award for nonfiction, and china men 1980, which was awarded the 1981 national book award. First published in 1976, it has become a classic in its innovative portrayal of multiple and intersecting identitiesimmigrant, female, chinese. Books by maxine hong kingston author of the woman warrior. Kingston is the author of the booklength poem i love a broad margin to my life 2011.
Maxine hong kingstons the woman warrior is a widely read memoir first published in 1976. Kingston has written three novels and several works of nonfiction about the experiences of chinese americans. Maxine hong kingston is the author of the woman warrior, china men, and the fifth book of peace, among other works. Discover book depositorys huge selection of maxine hong kingston books online. A longtime member of the berkeley faculty, she is currently senior lecturer for creative writing. Pdf maxine hong kingston the woman warrior eduardo. Maxine hong kingston has also published two volumes of essays, hawaii one summer 1987, an appreciation of the islands where kingston lived and taught during the 1960s and 70s.
China men vintage international series by maxine hong kingston. Memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts by maxine hong kingston. A classic, for a reason celeste ng via twitterin her awardwinning book the woman warrior, maxine hong kingston created an entirely new forman exhilarating blend of autobiography and mythology, of world and self, of hot rage and cool analysis. Maxine hong kingston, senior lecturer for creative writing at the university of california, berkeley, delivered the 2000 william e. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the national book award, the national book critics circle award, the presidentially conferred national. Discover librarianselected research resources on maxine hong kingston from the questia online library, including fulltext online books, academic journals. Her first book, the woman warrior, blended fiction, memoir and. The woman warrior npr coverage of the woman warrior. Read a plot overview of the entire book or a chapter by chapter summary and analysis. Her nonfiction books include the woman warrior, which won the national book critics circle award for nonfiction, china men. Maxine hong kingston biography book summaries, test. Maxine hong kingston was born to chinese immigrant parents in stockton.
Maxine hong kingstons the fifth book of peace exhibits a journey through human conscience. And i dont have to make reports on what i read or to apply what i read. Maxine hong kingston, an eminent memoirist and a celebrated chineseamerican autobiographer, is best known for the woman warrior. The woman warrior, china men by maxine hong kingston. Diane simmonss critical and biographical analysis is the first book length study of kingston and her complete works, including the less.
Celeste ng, author of little fires everywhere, and maxine hong kingston, author of the woman warrior, join jeffrey brown to answer reader questions about our august pick for. Kingston lost the manuscript to her fourth book of peace in a house fire in 1991, and through the process of reviving or regurgitating the contents of the book, she came up with the fifth book of peace. After 40 years, maxine hong kingstons iconic book, the. Maxine hong kingston was born to chinese immigrant parents in stockton, california in 1940 and graduated from the university of california, berkeley. For her memoirs and ction, the fifth book of peace, the woman warrior, china men, tripmaster monkey. Pdf maxine hong kingston download read online free. Maxine hong kingston on memory, meditation and magic part. In conversations with maxine hong kingston, a book of collected interviews, the introduction notes how students, particularly asian american women, look to her as a model, find themselves in her tales, seek her out with sycophantic regularity. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the national book award, the national book critics circle award, the presidentially conferred national humanities medal, the medal for distinguished contribution to american letters from the national book foundation, and. Maxine hong kingston has 33 books on goodreads with 117176 ratings. China men 1980 by chineseamerican novelist and memoirist maxine hong kingston follows the lives of four generations of chineseamerican men from the 1850s to the present.
Maxine hong kingstons most popular book is the lover. Maxine hong kingston books list of books by author maxine. First published in 1976, it has become a classic in its innovative portrayal of multiple and intersecting identitiesimmigrant, female, chinese, american. Her father, tom hong, arrived in new york city in 1924. The main characters of this fiction, cultural story are. Maxine hong kingston books list of books by author maxine hong. The start and the ending of the story are quite sudden and take some time to understand. Kingston s mother, referred to as brave orchid in the book, married her father in china, before he immigrated to new york city in 1924. Memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts 1976 and its companion volume, china men 1980. The fancifully narrated postmodern autobiography is regarded as an. Maxine hong kingston, born october 27, 1940, stockton, california, u. Maxine hong kingston awarded national book foundations.
But fire holds the power to transform, and the fifth book of peace, by maxine hong kingston, the national book awardwinning author of the. Discover librarianselected research resources on maxine hong kingston from the questia online library, including fulltext online books, academic journals, magazines, newspapers and more. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the national book award, the national book critics circle award, the presidentially conferred national humanities medal, the medal for distinguished contribution to american letters from the national book foundation, and the f. List of books and articles about maxine hong kingston online. In both books maxine hong kingston mines her familys past and her cultures stories, weaving myth and memory to fashion works of enormous revelatory power. The daughter of chinese immigrants, maxine hong kingston grew up in california. Readers recognized in china men, a follow up memoir, and tripmaster monkey, a genredefying novel, the same beguiling narrative voice and panoramic prose. The first edition of the novel was published in 1980, and was written by maxine hong kingston. Maxine hong kingston s the woman warrior book summary. Heres a storytellers tale of what they endured in a strange new land. 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.
First published in 1976, it has become a classic in its innovative portrayal of multiple and intersecting identitiesimmigrant, female. The book blends autobiography with what kingston purports to be old chinese folktales, although several scholars have questioned the accuracy and authenticity of these folktales. The author chronicles the lives of three generations of chinese men in america, woven from memory, myth and fact. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 308 pages and is available in paperback format. Those of us in the first american generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fits in solid america. Memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts is a book written by chinese american author maxine hong kingston and published by alfred a. Aug 28, 2019 celeste ng, author of little fires everywhere, and maxine hong kingston, author of the woman warrior, join jeffrey brown to answer reader questions about our august pick for the newshour. Memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts, which won the national book critics circle award, is kingstons disturbing and fiercely beautiful account of growing up chineseamerican in california. Courtesy of vintage books the woman warrior is but the beginning of a. Pdf china men book by maxine hong kingston free download.
Maxine hong kingston has 34 books on goodreads with 118804 ratings. Home browse literature fiction novelists maxine hong kingston. Officially, they are cataloged as such, but in the deepest sense of readers experience they seem. Her notable books included the memoirs the woman warrior, china men, and i love a broad margin to my life. The woman warrior is a pungent, bitter, but beautifully written memoir of growing up chinese american in stockton, california. Concealment thwarted the gods, the author of these extraordinary memoirs reports, and their americanborn children tooalways trying to get things straight, to name the unspeakable. In the story tonguetied, kingston presents a detailed personal life experience with the language barrier she had growing up as a chinese american. And it was it was in chinese and so that was the beginning of my life as an artist. Maxine hong kingston is widely regarded as one of the major authors of contemporary american literature. Memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts, and china men, and more on.
Featuring notable asian american authors such as amy tan and david henry hwang, it explored kingstons life, paying particular attention to her commentary on cultural heritage and both sexual and racial oppression. Celeste ng and maxine hong kingston answer your questions. Divided into five chapters, each of which is more or less selfcontained, maxine hong kingston s the woman warrior explores the many forms of adversity that women face. Her parents were chinese immigrants who came to the united states fifteen years apart, just as hong kingston recounts in the woman warrior.
Maxine hong kingstons most recent publication i love a broad margin to my life, is book of poetry, or more accurately a memoir written as poetry in freeverse. See all books authored by maxine hong kingston, including the woman warrior. Acclaimed author maxine hong kingstons the woman warrior broke new ground when it was first published 35 years ago, weaving autobiography, history, folklore, and fantasy in to a candid and revelatory story about the daughter of chinese immigrants in mid20th century california. See a complete list of the characters in the woman warrior and indepth analyses of kingston, brave orchid, and moon orchid. The woman warrior won the national book critics circle award in 1976 for nonfiction, and china men was awarded the 1980 american book award. Memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts received a national book critics circle award for general nonfiction in 1976, but the book stretches the definition of a memoir, as the author blends folk legends with personal memories and secondhand histories. With the continued expansion of the literary canon, multicultural works of modern literary fiction and autobiography have assumed an increasing importance for students and scholars of american literature. Maxine hong kingston books list of books by author. Her nonfiction books include the woman warrior, which won the national book. Maxine hong kingston was born in stockton, california, on october 27, 1940, the first of six americanborn children of tom hong and chew ling yan, chinese immigrants. Kingston uses womens stories to explore her own cultural history. Follow maxine hong kingston and explore their bibliography from s maxine hong kingston author page. The woman warrior audiobook by maxine hong kingston.
Maxine hong kingston is a chinese american author and professor emerita at the university of. Kingston s triumphant return fire is fickle, unpredictable. A classic, for a reason celeste ng via twitter in her awardwinning book the woman warrior, maxine hong kingston created an entirely new forman exhilarating blend of autobiography and mythology, of world and self, of hot rage and cool analysis. In her awardwinning book the woman warrior, maxine hong kingston created an entirely new forman exhilarating blend of autobiography and mythology, of world and self, of hot rage and cool analysis. Maxine kingston biography list of works, study guides. Then you can start reading kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer no kindle device required. Massey lectures at harvard, on which this book is based. Maxine hong kingston was born maxine hong in 1940 in stockton, california. Maxine hong kingston, american writer, much of whose work is rooted in her experiences as a firstgeneration chinese american. Jan 20, 2011 maxine hong kingston also wrote the woman warrior, a creative nonfiction memoir about women at the intersection of chinese and western culture.
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