{"product_id":"maxine-hong-kingston-the-woman-warrior-china-men-tripmaster-monkey-hawaii-one-summer-other-writings-loa-355-hardcover","title":"Maxine Hong Kingston: The Woman Warrior, China Men, Tripmaster Monkey, Hawai'i One Summer, Other Writings (Loa #355) - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMaxine Hong Kingston\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eViet Thanh Nguyen\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe largest and most comprehensive edition of our foremost Asian American writer: three classic books and additional writings, many rare, that together offer a vivid and searching portrait of immigrant experience and American dreams.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMaxine Hong Kingston made a stunning entrance on the American literary scene with \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Woman Warrior\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e(1976), her \"memoirs of a childhood among ghosts.\" Not only an account of growing up poor and Chinese American in the San Joaquin Valley, it was also an audacious feat of imaginative transformation and pathbreaking work of feminist autobiography, drawing on ancient myths and the family stories her mother brought over from China to make sense of a transformed life in America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA companion to \u003ci\u003eThe Woman Warrior\u003c\/i\u003e, which she called her \"mother-book,\" Kingston's \"father-book\" \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eChina Men \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e(1980) spreads out across a large geographical and historical canvas to envision the lives of her male relatives who immigrated to America. Taken together, \u003ci\u003eThe Woman Warrior \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eChina Men \u003c\/i\u003eoffer a profound, kaleidoscopic, genre-defying narrative of the American experience. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKingston's third book, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e (1989), is the wildly inventive story of Wittman Ah Sing, a Berkeley graduate student whose experience of the San Francisco Beat scene transforms his understanding of his own Chinese heritage. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRounding out the volume are a series of essays from 1978 reflecting on her life in Hawaii, later collected as \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eHawai'i One Summer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, personal musings whose subjects range from the contentions of a conference of Asian American writers to home-buying, surfing, and the work of the Beat poet Lew Welch. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlso included are hard-to-find essays about the creative process and Kingston's exasperated, insightful account of how most of the reviewers of \u003ci\u003eThe Woman Warrior \u003c\/i\u003efell prey to lazy stereotypes about the \"exotic\" and \"inscrutable\" East. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaxine Hong Kingston\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1940) is the author of many works of memoir, fiction, poetry, and essays. She has been the recipient of the National Book Award (for \u003ci\u003eChina Men\u003c\/i\u003e), the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (for \u003ci\u003eThe Woman Warrior\u003c\/i\u003e), the PEN West Award for Fiction (for \u003ci\u003eTripmaster Monkey\u003c\/i\u003e), an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, a National Humanities Medal, and the National Medal of Arts. She is Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eViet Thanh Nguyen\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1971), editor, is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eThe Sympathizer\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His other books include, most recently, the story collection \u003ci\u003eThe Refugees\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eas well as \u003ci\u003eNothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRace and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America\u003c\/i\u003e. The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and many other awards, he is currently the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He was a student of Kingston's at the University of California, Berkeley. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1056\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 17, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767240982816,"sku":"9781598537246","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/4ab91fc2dee602899f1c641a04c06251.webp?v=1780307327","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/maxine-hong-kingston-the-woman-warrior-china-men-tripmaster-monkey-hawaii-one-summer-other-writings-loa-355-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}