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Author
Series
Library of America volume 355
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Since exploding onto the literary stage with The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston has, in book after book, made words sing and soar, search and scorch. But she is more than a writer's writer. She is writer as pioneer, writer as visionary, writer as bringer of peace. A champion, not so much of irony and wit as of love and compassion, she has often worked as much through aura as words--paradoxically cutting, as she does, a most singular and challenging...
Author
Publisher
Everyman's Library
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Here-for the first time in one volume-are two classic, brilliantly original works on the experience of Chinese immigrants in America. In both books Maxine Hong Kingston mines her family's past and her culture's stories, weaving myth and memory to fashion works of enormous revelatory power. THE WOMAN WARRIOR: MEMOIRS OF A GIRLHOOD AMONG GHOSTS, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, is Kingston's disturbing and fiercely beautiful account...
Series
Approaches to teaching world literature volume 39
Publisher
Modern Language Association of America
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
10) Maxine Hong Kingston's broken book of life: an intertextual study of the Woman warrior and China men
Author
Publisher
University of Hawai'i Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 711
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
20) Novels for students: Volume 6 :presenting analysis, context, and crticism on commonly studied novels
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Each volume provides discussions of the literary and historical background of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes concise synopses of plot, characters and themes, a brief author biography, discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance, and excerpted criticism.
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