Understanding Maxine Hong Kingston (eBook)

Julia H Lee (Autor)

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2018
152 Seiten
University of South Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-61117-854-8 (ISBN)

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The first book-length work to examine the entirety of Kingston's unique literary career

Maxine Hong Kingston is known for using a distinctive blend of autobiography, fantasy, and folklore to explore the history, experience, and identity of Chinese Americans. This is exemplified in her first book, The Woman Warrior, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction, a bestseller, and a staple on college and university syllabi. Although The Woman Warrior is by far her most celebrated book, Kingston has penned a wide range of essays, fiction, and poetry, including China Men, Tripmaster Monkey, Hawai'i One Summer, To Be a Poet, The Fifth Book of Peace, I Love a Broad Margin to My Life, and the edited volume Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace.

Understanding Maxine Hong Kingston is the first book-length work to examine the entirety of Kingston's literary career, from The Woman Warrior to her most recent volume of poetry. Julia H. Lee weaves together scholarly assessments, interviews, biographical information, and her own critical analysis to provide a complete and complex picture of Kingston's works and its impact on memoir, feminist fiction, Asian American literature, and postmodern literature.

Lee examines the influence that previous generations of Asian American authors, feminism, and antiwar activism have had on Kingston's work. Offering important contextual information about Kingston's life, Lee shows how it has so often served as a starting point for Kingston's writing. Also studied are her complex attitudes toward genre, and her ever-evolving identity as a novelist, essayist, memoirist, and poet. A comprehensive bibliography of critical secondary sources will be an invaluable resource for readers and critics of Kingston's works.

Autor

Julia H. Lee is an associate professor of Asian American studies at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896–1937.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.2.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Understanding Contemporary American Literature
• Reihe/Serie: Understanding Contemporary American Literature
• Verlagsort: Columbia
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Amy Tan • Asian • Binjamin Wilkomirski • Chinese American • Crone • deanna • fantasy, folklore • Feminist fiction • Hua Mulan • Iris Chang • Julia Lee • Jung Chang • Louisa May Alcott • Madame Bovary • Margaret Cho • Marilyn Chin • Maxine Hong Kingston • Memoir • Mrs. • Nora Okja Keller • Obasan • postmodern literature • Ronyoung Kim • rosier • The Woman Warrior • Toni Morrison • woman warrior
• ISBN-10: 1-61117-854-1 / 1611178541
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61117-854-8 / 9781611178548