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Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
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Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingston writes about the bonds as well as the conflicts between women in Chinese-American culture--how the traditional Asian way of life is transformed in the new world for better and for worse. In the process, Kingston tells the story of her life, her coming of age, and her assimilation into American culture.
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China Men
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Kingston, in this sequel to WOMAN WARRIOR, writes about the building of the transcontinental railroad and the Chinese men who worked on the project, including her father and various male ancestors.
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Woman Warrior
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Maxine Hong Kingston writes about the bonds as well as the conflicts between women in Chinese-American culture--how the traditional Asian way of life is transformed in the new world for better and for worse. In the process, Kingston tells the story of her life, her coming of age, and her assimilation into American culture.
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The Fifth Book of Peace
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Kingston's book was written in response to the burning of her home in the Oakland fires of 1991, in which she also lost the manuscript to a novel-in-progress called THE FOURTH BOOK OF PEACE. Incorporating that book into a memoir about the loss of her house, Kingston has created a moving meditation on loss and memory as well as a plea for peace in ...
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Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book
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Maxine Hong Kingston
Kingston's first novel is about Wittman Ah Sing, a defiantly unstereotypical Chinese-American hippie.
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Woman Warrior V392
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Maxine Hong Kingston writes about the bonds as well as the conflicts between women in Chinese-American culture--how the traditional Asian way of life is transformed in the new world for better and for worse. In the process, Kingston tells the story of her life, her coming of age, and her assimilation into American culture.
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Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace
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Maxine Hong Kingston (Editor)
This poignant collection, compiled from Kingston's healing workshops, contains the distilled wisdom of survivors of five wars, including combatants, war widows, spouses, children, conscientious objectors, and veterans of domestic abuse. "Vetrans of War, Vetrans of Peace" includes accounts from people that grew up in military families, served as ...
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To Be the Poet
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Maxine Hong Kingston
A manual on conjuring the elusive muse, this volume is Kingston's manifesto, avowal, and declaration of a writer who turns to poetry exclusively. Kingston delivered the 2000 William Massey lectures at Harvard, on which this book is based. Illustrations.
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Hawaii one summer
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In this collection of eleven pieces, originally issued as a limited hand-printed edition, Maxine Hong Kingston does not attempt to capture Hawai'i but "instead and incidentally" to describe her "piece by piece, and hope that the sum praises her"The essays provide readers with a generous sampling of Kingston's signature: an angle of vision, ...
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Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston
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Paul Skenazy (Editor), Tera Martin (Editor), Maxine Hong Kingston
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 ...
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F.O.B. and Other Plays
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David Henry Hwang, Henry Hwang, Maxine Hong Kingston (Foreword by)
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Through the black curtain
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Maxine Hong Kingston
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The Woman Warrior, China Men
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Maxine Hong Kingston, Mary Gordon (Introduction by)
Maxine Hong Kingston writes about the bonds as well as the conflicts between women in Chinese-American culture--how the traditional Asian way of life is transformed in the new world for better and for worse. In the process, Kingston tells the story of her life, her coming of age, and her assimilation into American culture.
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Talk Story: An Anthology of Hawaii's Local Writers
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Eric Chock (Editor), Maxine Hong Kingston
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Tripmaster Monkey
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Physical Disability
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Maxine Hong Kingston, Self
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Selected from China Men and the Woman Warrior
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Literacy Volunteers of New York City Sta (Editor), Maxine Hong Kingston
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Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston
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Maxine Hong Kingston, Tera Martin (Editor), Paul Skenazy (Editor)
In 1976 Maxine Hong Kingston burst into American literature with the publication of The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. Since then her subsequent works -- China Men (1980) and Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book (1989) -- have startled readers with their complex projections of Asian-American life as a bicultural and bilingual ...
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Die Schwertkämpferin
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Maxine Hong Kingston
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Two foreign women.
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Maxine Hong Kingston, Luisa Valenzuela
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