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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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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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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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Teacher
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Warner Sylvia Ashton, Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Maxine Hong Kingston (Foreword by)
"Teacher" was first published in 1963 to excited acclaim. Its author, Sylvia Ashton-Warner, who lived in New Zealand and spent many years teaching Maori children, found that Maoris taught according to British methods were not learning to read. They were passionate, moody children, bred in an ancient legend-haunted tradition; how could she build ...
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China Men
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Maxine 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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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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To Be the Poet
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Maxine Hong Kingston
"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 60 years to writing prose, and who, over the course of this spirited and inspiring ...
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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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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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Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book
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Maxine Hong Kingston
Wittman Ah Sing is an unstoppable hipster poet and playwright on the streets of San Francisco, after the Beats have left and before the hippies have arrived. He falls in love with Nancy the Beautiful, marries Tana, and chases his dream to write and stage an epic drama spanning America and China.
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Hawaii one summer
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Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingston''s essays do not attempt to capture Hawai''i but instead provide the reader with a ge nerous sampling of her impressions over a twenty year period whilst living there. '
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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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Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston
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Paul Skenazy (Editor), Tera Martin (Editor), Maxine Hong Kingston
A collection of interviews with Kingston in which she talks about her life, her writing and her objectives in a provocative, constantly amused and amusing manner, recorded from 1976 through 1998.
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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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Talk Story: An Anthology of Hawaii's Local Writers
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Eric Chock (Editor), Maxine Hong Kingston
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The Female Bildungsroman: A Postmodern Reading
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Toni Morrison, Maxine Hong Kingston
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Tripmaster Monkey
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Through the black curtain
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Two foreign women.
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Maxine Hong Kingston, Luisa Valenzuela
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Fifth Book of Peace, the
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Kingston Maxine Hong
Divided into four sections - "Fire", "Paper", "Water" and "Earth", this title is neither fiction, nor autobiography nor memoir, but a unique form of Chinese "talk-story" in which real and imagined worlds intrude upon and enrich each other, built upon stories of war.
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