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Maxine Hong Kingston (Chinese: 湯婷婷; [2] born Maxine Ting Ting Hong; [3] October 27, 1940) is an American novelist. She is a professor emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a B.A. in English in 1962. [4] Kingston has written three novels and several works of non-fiction about the experiences of Chinese ...
The specific genre of The Woman Warrior has been disputed due to Kingston's blend of perspectives, specifically traditional Chinese folktale and memoir. With this mixture, Kingston tries to provide her audience with the cultural, familial, and personal context needed to understand her unique position as a first-generation Chinese-American woman.
Kingston wrote The Woman Warrior and China Men as one and would like them to be read together; she decided to publish them separately in fear that some of the men's stories might weaken the feminist perspective of the women's stories. [2] The collection becomes what A. Robert Lee calls a "narrative genealogy" of Chinese settlement in the United ...
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Maxine Hong Kingston – writer, currently resides in Oakland [180] Richard Lange – Los Angeles-based author, born in Oakland [181] Yiyun Li – writer, former creative writing instructor at Mills College [182] Jack London – writer, raised in Oakland, namesake of Jack London Square [183] Anthony Marra – writer [184] Rod McKuen – poet ...
The Fifth Book of Peace is a 2003 book by Maxine Hong Kingston, published by Knopf. [1] Part-fiction, part-memoir, the book was written in response to Kingston's house fire in 1991 and additionally contains her thoughts about war, specifically the Vietnam War and the Gulf War, among others.
The Tradition of Chinese American Women's Life Stories: Thematics of Race and Gender in Jade Snow Wong's Fifth Chinese Daughter and Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior By: Lim, Shirley Geok-lin. pp. 252–67 IN: Culley, Margo (ed.); American Women's Autobiography: Fea(s)ts of Memory. Madison: U of Wisconsin P; 1992. xiii, 329 pp. (book ...
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