Maxine Hong Kingston A Critical Companion

Name: Maxine Hong Kingston A Critical Companion
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ISBN: 9780313308772

ISBN-10: 0313308772

ISBN-13: 9780313308772

Edition: 2001

Authors: Edelma D. Huntley

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Maxine Hong Kingston's first book, Woman Warrior gained instant popularity and critical success, winning top national literary awards as well as a place on the best seller list. Readers recognized in China Men, a follow up memoir, and Tripmaster Monkey, a genre-defying novel, the same beguiling narrative voice and panoramic prose. This critical study provides an introduction to Kingston's works with in-depth literary analysis of her three long narratives. It helps students understand the important thematic concerns, such as the immigrant acculturalization process and the literary innovations such as the talk story narrative mode introduced by Kingston. Taking readers beyond these works,…

Book details

List price: $57.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Publication date: 10/30/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



Series Foreword



Acknowledgments



The Life of Maxine Hong Kingston



Maxine Hong Kingston and the Asian American Literary Tradition



The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts (1976)



China Men (1980)



Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book (1989)


Bibliography


Index