Maxine Hong Kingston
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Born in California to immigrant Chinese parents, Kingston was educated at the University of California at Berkeley. Kingston soared to literary celebrity upon the publication of her autobiographica The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts (1976). The Woman Warrior is dominated by vis mere Kingston's mother; her next work, China Men (1980), although not autobiographical in the manner of her previous book, is focused on her father and on the other men in her family, giving fictionalized, poetic versions of their histories. The combination of fiction, nonfiction, memoir, and myth in both books create a form of balanced opposites that one critic has likened to yin and yang. Her first novel, Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book, was published in 1989. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingston: The Woman Warrior, China Men, Tripmaster Monkey, Other Writings (LOA #355) (Library of America,… (2022) 46 eksemplarer
Kingston, Maxine Hong Archive 1 eksemplar
Ingen titel 1 eksemplar
“No Name Woman” 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Written by Herself, Volume I: Autobiographies of American Women (1992) — Bidragyder — 429 eksemplarer
The Writer on Her Work, Volume I: Contemporary Women Writers Reflect on their Art and Situation (1980) — Bidragyder — 181 eksemplarer
Charlie Chan Is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction (1993) — Bidragyder — 159 eksemplarer
Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (1994) — Bidragyder — 121 eksemplarer
Living with Shakespeare: Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors (2013) — Bidragyder — 87 eksemplarer
War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing (2016) — Bidragyder — 87 eksemplarer
Grand Mothers: Poems, Reminiscences, and Short Stories About the Keepers of Our Traditions (1994) — Bidragyder — 79 eksemplarer
Jo's Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life (1997) — Bidragyder — 47 eksemplarer
West Coast Fiction: Modern Writing from California, Oregon, and Washington (1979) — Bidragyder — 7 eksemplarer
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- Juridisk navn
- Hong, Maxine (born)
Kingston, Maxine Hong (married) - Fødselsdato
- 1940-10-27
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Stockton, California, USA
- Bopæl
- Stockton, California, USA (birth)
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA - Uddannelse
- University of California, Berkeley (1962)
- Erhverv
- teacher
professor
novelist - Organisationer
- University of California, Berkeley
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- National Humanities Medal (1997)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1990)
John Dos Passos Prize (1998)
Robert Kirsch Award (2007)
F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Fiction (2011)
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Lifetime Achievement (2024)
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The woman warrior : memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts af Maxine Hong Kingston
Skillfully crafted but not my cup of tea. The beginning and the end were required for a writing class and I can see the value in looking at the techniques she used to insert imagination but I skimmed much of it and couldn't wait to get back to my own reading of [b:H is for Hawk|18803640|H is for Hawk|Helen Macdonald|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1394343876s/18803640.jpg|26732095]
A haunting story of a Chinese American trying to make sense of her heritage and confusing family history. She uncovers a story so powerful that finally allows her to accept her position in life.
Another one I remember reading some years ago, without now recalling its details. But I do remember it was enjoyable.
Kingston is a master at weaving first, second, and third voices into a memoir filled with anicient Chinese folklore and cautionary tales about womanhood. I felt a lot of sadness in Woman Warrior. The tragedy starts early in as Kingston describes her mother, a former Chinese doctor, telling a horrifying tale about an aunt giving birth to a sexless child in a pigsty and then committing suicide with that baby; drowning together in a well. There was such shame in this pregnancy, "To save her inseminator's name she gave a silent birth" (p 14). So much contradiction in culture! There is a crime to being born female and yet there is the story of the fierce woman warrior, the legend of the female avenger. My favorite parts were when Kingston addresses the difference between American-feminine and Chinese-feminine.… (mere)
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