Maxine Hong Kingston Boeken

Exploring the profound impact of conflict, this collection features a blend of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry from veterans of five different wars. Each piece offers unique perspectives and redemptive storytelling, highlighting the experiences and emotional journeys of those directly affected by war. The anthology serves as a powerful testament to resilience and the quest for peace amidst the chaos of battle.

The collection offers a bold retelling of America's national narrative through the lens of a Chinese immigrant's daughter. It intertwines personal experiences with broader historical themes, providing a unique perspective on identity, culture, and the immigrant experience in America. This groundbreaking work combines three books into one volume, showcasing the author's insights and storytelling prowess as she explores the complexities of her heritage and its impact on her understanding of the American story.

Exploring the Chinese immigrant experience in America, this volume combines two classic works by Maxine Hong Kingston. Through a blend of myth and personal history, Kingston delves into her family's past and cultural narratives, creating powerful and insightful reflections on identity and belonging. The stories reveal the struggles and resilience of immigrants, offering a profound understanding of their journeys and experiences in a new land.

In her singular voice—both humble and brave, touching and humorous—Maxine Hong Kingston gives us a poignant and beautiful memoir-in-verse that captures the wisdom that comes with age. As she reflects on her sixty-five years, she circles from present to past and back, from lunch with a writer friend to the funeral of a Vietnam veteran, from her long marriage to her arrest at a peace march in Washington. On her journeys as writer, peace activist, teacher, and mother, she revisits her most beloved characters—Wittman Ah-Sing, the Tripmaster Monkey, and Fa Mook Lan, the Woman Warrior—and presents us with a beautiful meditation on China then and now. The result is a marvelous account of an American life of great purpose and joy, and the tonic wisdom of a writer we have come to cherish.

The author chronicles the lives of three generations of Chinese men in America, woven from memory, myth and fact. Here's a storyteller's tale of what they endured in a strange new land.

With an introduction by Xiaolu GuoA classic memoir set during the Chinese revolution of the 1940s and inspired by folklore, providing a unique insight into the life of an immigrant in America.When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talking-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves. We could be heroines, swordswomen. Throughout her childhood, Maxine Hong Kingston listened to her mother's mesmerizing tales of a China where girls are worthless, tradition is exalted and only a strong, wily woman can scratch her way upwards. Growing up in a changing America, surrounded by Chinese myth and memory, this is her story of two cultures and one trenchant, lyrical journey into womanhood. Complex and beautiful, angry and adoring, Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior is a seminal piece of writing about emigration and identity. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1976 and is widely hailed as a feminist classic.

Set against the backdrop of historical conflict in China, the narrative explores the significance of the lost Books of Peace, which were deemed too dangerous to exist. Maxine Hong Kingston's Fourth Book of Peace emerges from personal tragedy, particularly the loss of her father during the 1991 Berkeley-Oakland Hills fire. This work intricately blends fiction and memoir, offering a profound reflection on themes of war, peace, destruction, and the possibility of renewal, ultimately aiming to heal and inspire.