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Brave Orchid's story of No Name Woman provides one valuable inroad into Kingston's discovering her cultural history. Brave Orchid relates how on the night when Kingston's aunt gave birth to an illegitimate child, the people of the Chinese village in which the aunt and her family lived ransacked the family's house, killed all of their livestock, and destroyed their crops. Shunned by her family ...
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Apr 24, 2024 · Kingston also published poems, short stories, and articles. Her collection of 12 prose sketches, Hawai’i One Summer (1987), was published in a limited edition with original woodblock prints and calligraphy.
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The Asian-American literary pioneer, whose writing has paved the way for many immigrants’ stories, has one last big idea.
Mar 25, 2022 · Maxine Hong Kingston is a writer known for her ability to transition between genres with ease, seamlessly moving between fiction, (auto)biography, essay, myth, and poetry, often all in one text. Across these many literary forms, there remains a constant: the belief in writing's ability to serve a valuable social function.
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 BA in English in 1962. [4] Kingston has written three novels and several works of non-fiction about the experiences of Chinese ...
May 1, 2020 · Nearly fifty years after The Woman Warrior was first published, Kingston’s work has withstood the challenges from both outside and inside the Chinese American community to achieve canonical status in American and Asian American Literature courses. The longevity and breadth of her appeal are striking. “I think Maxine Hong Kingston won the ...
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Feb 6, 2011 · Kingston has occupied a space between genres since her first book, “The Woman Warrior,” was published in 1976.
