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Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts more books like this

by 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

China Men more books like this

by Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Woman Warrior more books like this

by 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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Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book

Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book more books like this

by Maxine Hong Kingston

Kingston's first novel is about Wittman Ah Sing, a defiantly unstereotypical Chinese-American hippie.

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The Fifth Book of Peace

The Fifth Book of Peace more books like this

by Maxine Hong Kingston

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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Woman Warrior V392 more books like this

by 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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Hawaii one summer

Hawaii one summer more books like this

by Maxine Hong Kingston

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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Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace

Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace more books like this

by 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

To Be the Poet more books like this

by 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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Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston

Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston more books like this

by 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 more books like this

by David Henry Hwang, Henry Hwang, Maxine Hong Kingston (Foreword by)

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Through the black curtain more books like this

by Maxine Hong Kingston

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The Woman Warrior, China Men

The Woman Warrior, China Men more books like this

by 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 more books like this

by Eric Chock (Editor), Maxine Hong Kingston

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Tripmaster Monkey

by Maxine Hong Kingston

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Physical Disability more books like this

by Maxine Hong Kingston, Self

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Selected from China Men and the Woman Warrior more books like this

by Literacy Volunteers of New York City Sta (Editor), Maxine Hong Kingston

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Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston more books like this

by 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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Maxine Hong Kingston Interview with Kay Bonetti more books like this

by Maxine Hong Kingston

After an introduction to her life and work, author Kingston discusses the structures and manner of compositions in her works The woman warrior and China men. She reveals how each work portrays the Chinese-American experience with a poetic blend of myth, legend, oral history, factual narrative, fiction, memoir, and autobiography.

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Die Schwertkämpferin

by Maxine Hong Kingston

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Two foreign women.

by Maxine Hong Kingston, Luisa Valenzuela

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