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Jun 27, 1990 · Maxine Hong Kingston: Talking Story: Directed by Joan Saffa. With Rupert García, David Henry Hwang, Earll Kingston, Maxine Hong Kingston. "Maxine Hong Kingston: Talking Story" is a one-hour public television biography of the Chinese-American author of "The Woman Warrior," "China Men," and "Tripmaster Monkey."
- Joan Saffa
- 1990-06-27
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Jul 28, 2014 · Excerpt from Maxine Hong Kingston: Talking Story - YouTube. KQED Arts. 49.5K subscribers. Subscribed. 202. 33K views 9 years ago. A short excerpt from the 1990 KQED documentary profile of...
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A public television documentary produced by Joan Saffa, Stephen Talbot and Gayle K. Yamada, Maxine Hong Kingston: Talking Story, was released in 1990. Narrated by actor B.D. Wong and featuring notable Asian-American authors such as Amy Tan and David Henry Hwang , it explored Kingston's life, paying particular attention to her commentary on ...
Contemporary Chinese-American author Maxine Hong Kingston comments about her life as an artist, a writer, and as a human being, and reads from her works The Woman Warrior, China Men, and Tripmaster Monkey.;
Jun 1, 2020 · And the notion of the “talk story,” the improvisational, oral tradition that drives “The Woman Warrior,” is central to Hawaiian culture.
- Hua Hsu
May 1, 2020 · In The Woman Warrior, she draws a clear lineage between her mother’s “talk-story” (the oral relation of the stories of from China) and her own writing. She filled in the details of her mother’s stories imaginatively as a way of both realizing a collective identity and finding an individual one as a writer.
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This article interprets Kingston's China Men as "historiographic metafiction"--a revisionist novel which counters traditional historiography with an alternative mode of telling and reimagines the past to make room for a different future.
