Maxine Hong Kingston Summary

Maxine Hong Kingston (1940 -) (Born Maxine Ting Ting Hong) American memoirist, nonfiction writer, novelist, essayist, and poet. Maxine Hong Kingston: Introduction Maxine Hong Kingston: Principal Works... Read more

Biography EssayOne of the most outspoken contemporary feminist writers, Maxine Hong Kingston states in her autobiographical book The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976), "The swor... Read more

Called "the most influential Asian American author of the twentieth century," by Keith Lawrence and John Dye, writing in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Maxine Hong Kingston has made the Chinese... Read more

Maxine Hong Kingston easily is the most influential Asian American author of the twentieth century. Kingston's first book, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts (1976), was an instant ... Read more

Critical Essay by Sara Blackburn Maxine Hong Kingston illuminates the experience of everyone who has ever felt the terror of being an emotional outsider. It seems to me that the best records of the im... Read more

Critical Essay by Diane Johnson Maxine Hong Kingston's memoir of a Chinese-American girlhood presents … the female side of growing up in a tradition, perhaps any tradition. Women perform... Read more

Critical Essay by E. M. Broner In the title [China Men] Hong Kingston uses the pejorative, the patronizing "Chinamen," but she separates the words, perhaps to indicate that this designat... Read more