Kingston, Maxine Hong
About Maxine Hong Kingston
Biography (Encyclopædia Britannica)
Biography and Interview (National Endowment for the Arts)
Reviews
Suciu, Andreia-Irina. “Voices and Voicing in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior." Americana, vol. 10, no. 1, 2014
Ives, Nancy R. “I Love a Broad Margin to My Life.” Library Journal, vol. 135, no. 15, 2010
“I Love a Broad Margin to My Life.” Publishers Weekly, vol. 257, no. 45, 2010
Lim, Shirley Geok-lin. “The Woman Warrior: Her Planetary Asian American Imagination.” American Book Review, vol. 31, no. 1, 2009
Ho, Wendy. “Maxine Hong Kingston's Broken Book of Life: An Intertextual Study of The Woman Warrior and China Men.” Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 52, no. 1, 2006
San Juan Jr., E. “The Fifth Book of Peace.” Amerasia Journal, vol. 31, no. 3, 2005
Bartelt, Kathryn R. “The Fifth Book of Peace.” Library Journal, vol. 128, no. 12, 2003
Klausner, Lewis. “To Be the Poet.” Women's Studies, vol. 32, no. 3, 2003
Ratliff, Ron. “To Be the Poet.” Library Journal, vol. 127, no. 16, 2002
Tyler, Anne. “Manic Monologue.” New Republic, vol. 200, no. 16, 1998
Schreiber, L.A. “The Big, Big Show of Wittman Ah Sing.” New York Times Book Review, 23 Mar. 1989
Tyler, Anne. “China Men.” New Republic, vol. 182, no. 25, 1980
Interviews
Rustin, Susanna. “Maxine Hong Kingston: Singing along with Whitman.” The Guardian, 26 Apr. 2011
Shan, Te-Hsing. “A Veteran of Words and Peace: An Interview with Maxine Hong Kingston.” Amerasia Journal, vol. 34, no. 1, 2008
Cheung, King-Kok. Words Matter: Conversations with Asian American Writers, 2000
Skenazy, Paul, and Tera Martin (eds.), Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston, 1998
Criticism
Tong, Donna T. “Maxine Hong Kingston’s China Men.” Explicator, vol. 76, no. 1, 2018
Lee, Julia H. Understanding Maxine Hong Kingston, 2018
Malkawi, Sohaib. “Mother Complex and Mythopeic Influence in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior.” East-West Cultural Passage, vol. 17, no. 2, 2017
Chen, Yu Min (Claire). “The Contested Autobiographical Space: Reimagining China in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior.” Southeast Review of Asian Studies, vol. 38, 2016
Ziarkowska, Joanna. Retold Stories, Untold Histories: Maxine Hong Kingston and Leslie Marmon Silko on the Politics of Imagining the Past, 2013
Parrott, Jill M. “Power and Discourse: Silence as Rhetorical Choice in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior.” Rhetorica, vol. 30, no. 4, 2012
Hsu Shounan. “Writing, Event, and Peace: The Art of Peace in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Fifth Book of Peace.” College Literature, vol. 37, no. 2, 2010
San Juan Jr., E. “Dialectics of Aesthetics and Politics in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Fifth Book of Peace.” Criticism, vol. 51, no. 2, 2009
Mackin, Jonna. “Split Infinities: The Comedy of Performative Identity in Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey.” Contemporary Literature, vol. 46, no. 3, 2005
Maxey, Ruth. “‘The East is Where Things Begin’: Writing the Ancestral Homeland in Amy Tan and Maxine Hong Kingston.” Orbis Litterarum, vol. 60, no. 1, 2005
Chew, Shirley. “'Double Binds Around My Feet': The Enormity of the Everyday in Women's Writing and Writing about Women.” Journal of Gender Studies, vol. 14, no. 2, 2005
Feng, Pin-Chia. The Female 'Bildungsroman' by Toni Morrisson and Maxine Hong Kingston: A Postmodern Reading, 1998
Works
Autobiography/Life Writings
I Love a Broad Margin to My Life (2011)
Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace (2006)
The Fifth Book of Peace (2003)
To Be the Poet (2002)
Through the Black Curtain (1987)
Hawai'i One Summer (1987)
China Men (1980)
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976)
Novels
Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book (1989)
Essays/Articles/Non-Fiction/Short Stories
No Name Woman (1975)
Audio and Audiovisual Material
Celeste Ng and Maxine Hong Kingston Answer Questions about The Woman Warrior. YouTube, 29 Aug. 2019
A Conversation with Maxine Hong Kingston. YouTube, 20 Aug. 2014
2011 F. Scott Fitzgerald Interview with Maxine Hong Kingston. YouTube, 21 Nov. 2011
Maxine Hong Kingston Reads from I Love a Broad Margin to My Life. YouTube 9 Apr. 2011
Lunch Poems: Maxine Hong Kingston Reads from The Woman Warrior. YouTube, 1 Feb. 2008