Maxine Hong Kingston Bibliography

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[Fiction] [Nonfiction] [Interviews] [Biography] [Criticism] [The Woman Warrior] [Miscellaneous] [ERIC Resources]

Fiction

Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book. 1st Vintage Books ed. New York: Vintage International, 1990; New York: Knopf;: Distributed by Random House, 1989.

Wittman Ah Sing, a Chinese-American hippie in the late '60s, is driven by his dream to write and stage an epic stage production of interwoven Chinese novels.

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Nonfiction

China Men. pa. Reissue ed. Vintage, 1989; 1st Vintage International ed. New York: Vintage Books, 1989; 1st ed. New York: Knopf, 1980.

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. Reviews at Amazon

Hawai'i One Summer. pa. Reprint ed. Univ. of Hawaii Press, 1998; Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1998.

Collection of eleven essays on aspects of life in Hawai'i.

[Prose Reading] [sound recording] Introduced by Jane Stern. New York: Academy of American Poets, 1984.

Two Foreign Women. By Maxine Hong Kingston and Luisa Valenzuela. Leichhardt, NSW: Pluto Press, 1990. [45p]

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Kingston, Maxine Hong--Interviews

"Interview: Reinventing Peace: Conversations with Tripmaster Maxine Hong Kingston." Weber Studies, Winter 1995, v12, n1, p7. By Maxine Hong Kingston and Neila C. Seshachari.

Maxine Hong Kingston Interview with Kay Bonetti. [sound recording] Columbia, MO: American Audio Prose Library, 1986?

After an introduction to her life and work, author Kingston discusses the structures and manner of compositions in her works.

Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston. Edited by Paul Skenazy and Tera Martin. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998; pa. Univ. Pr. of Mississippi, 1998. Literary Conversations Series

The Stories of Maxine Hong Kingston. [videorecording] Parts 1 & 2. With Bill Moyers; a production of Public Affairs Television, Inc. PBS Video, c1991; Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities, 1994. A World of Ideas Series.

Talking Story. [videocassette] Produced by Joan Saffa, Stephen Talbot, Gayle K. Yamada; directed by Joan Saffa; narrated by B. D. Wong. San Francisco: KQED, 1991.

Kingston talks about her motivation, her family and her heritage which influence her writing.

Voices at the End of the Rainbow. [sound recording] Conceived and produced by Brad Rosenstein. San Francisco: B. Rosenstein, 1996.

Radio program featuring commentary by Juvenal Acosta, Diane di Prima, Jack Foley, Don Herron, Malcolm Margolin, Matthew Clark Davison, Maxine Hong Kingston and others.

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Biography

Maxine Hong Kingston Reads Excerpts from The Woman Warrior and China Men (with Earll Kingston). [sound recording] Columbia, MO: American Audio Prose Library, 1986?

After an introduction to her life and work, author Kingston reads excerpts from her work, The Woman Warrior. Her husband Earll Kingston reads from China Men.

Selected from China Men and The Woman Warrior. pa. New Readers Press, 1990. Writers Voices Series

Through the Black Curtain. Berkeley: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1987.

Contains excerpts from the author's The Woman Warrior, China Men and Tripmaster Monkey.

The Woman Warrior. South Yarmouth, MA: J. Curley, 1978, c1976

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. pa. Reissue ed. Vintage, 1989; New York: Vintage Books, 1977; New York: Knopf:distributed by Random House, 1976.

A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California childhood that have shaped her identity. Reviews at Amazon

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Criticism

Critical Essays on Maxine Hong Kingston. Edited by Laura E. Skandera-Trombley. New York: G. K. Hall; London: Prentice Hall International, 1998.

Cheung, King-Kok. Articulate Silences: Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, Joy Kogawa. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993.

Contemporary Literary Criticism. Detroit: Gale.

See Vol. 12, p. 312-315; Vol. 19, p. 249-251.
Feng, Pin-chia. The Female Bildunsroman by Toni Morrison and Maxine Hong Kingston: A Postmodern Reading. New York: P. Lang, c1998.

Gao, Yan. The Art of Parody; Maxine Hong Kingston's Use of Chinese Sources. New York: P. Lang, c1996.

Ho, Wendy. In Her Mother's House: The Politics of Asian American Mother-Daughter Writing. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press, c1999.

Huntley, E. D. Maxine Hong Kingston: A Critical Companion. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000.

McHenry, Elizabeth Ann. Setting Terms of Inclusion: Storytelling as a Narrative Technique and Theme in the Fiction of Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora Welty, Leslie Marmon Silko and Maxine Hong Kingston. UMI Dissertation Services, 1993.

Mikkonen, Kai. The Writer's Metamorphosis: Tropes of Literary Reflection and Revision. Tampere University, 1997.

Includes Michel Butor, Angel Carter, Maxine Hong Kingston and Philip Roth
Simmons, Diane. Maxine Hong Kingston. New York: Twayne, c1999.

Smith, Jeanne Rosier. Writing Tricksters: Mythic Gambols in American Ethnic Literature. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997.

Wogowitsch, Margit. Narrative Strategies and Multicultural Identity: Maxine Hong Kingston in Context. Wien: Braumuller, c1995. Austrian Studies in English, v81

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The Woman Warrior

Approaches to Teaching The Woman Warrior. Edited by Shirley Geok-lin Lim. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1991.

Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: A Casebook. Edited by Sau-Ling Cynthia Wong. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Ludwig, Sami. Concrete Language; Intercultural Communication in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior and Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo. New York: P. Lang, 1996.

Smith, Sidonie. A Poetics of Women's Autobiography: Marginality and the Fictions of Self-Representation. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c1987.

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Miscellaneous

Asian Americans: Comparative and Global Perspectives. Edited by Shirley Hune ... [et al.] Pullman, Wash.: Washington State University Press, c1991.

Asian-American Women Writers. Edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, c1997. Women Writers of English and Their Works Series.

Includes Diana Chang, Sui Sin Far, Winnifred Eaton, Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn, Maxine Hong Kingston,

Autobiographie & Avant-garde: Alain Robbe-Grillet, Serge Doubrovsky, Rachid Boudjedra, Maxine Hong Kingston, Raymond Federman, Ronald Sukenick. Edited by Alfred Hornung and Ernstpeter Ruhe. Tubingen: G. Narr, c1992. English & French

Papers presented at a meeting which was held at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat in Mainz, June 1990.

Challener, Daniel D. Stories of Resilience in Childhood: The Narratives of Maya Angelou, Maxine Hong Kingston, Richard Rodriguez, John Edgar Wideman, and Tobias Wolff. Garland, 1997.

Conflicts in Feminism. Edited by Marianne Hirsch & Evelyn Fox Keller. New York: Routledge, 1990.

Duras, Marguerite. The Lover. Introduction by Maxine Hong Kingston; translated by Barbara Bray. Pantheon, 1998.

First Words: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors. Collected and edited by Paul Mandelbaum. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1993.

The Intimate Critique: Autobiograhical Literary Criticism. Edited by Diane P. Freedman, Olivia Frey & Frances Murphy Zauhar. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995, c1993.

Kingston, Maxine Hong. "A Letter to Garrett Hongo upon the publication of The Open Boat" Amerasia Journal, 1994, v20, n3, p25.

Kingston, Maxine Hong. "Rupert Garcia; Dancing Between Realms" Mother Jones, Oct. 1, 1988, v13, n8, p32.

Kingston, Maxine Hong. "Violence and Non-Violence in China, 1989" Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter 1999, v29, n1, p62

Li, David Leiwei. Imagining the Nation; Asian American Literature and Cultural Consent. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998.

Marvis, Barbara J. Contemporary American Success Stories; Famous People of Asian Ancestry, Florence Hongo; I. M. Pei; Maxine Hong Kingston; Sammy Lee; Joan Chen. Asian ed. vol. 5 Mitchell Lane Publishers, 1994.

The Norton Book of Women's Lives. Edited by Phyllis Rose. New York: W. W. Norton, 1993.

Other Sisterhoods; Literary Theory and U.S. Women of Color. Edited by Sandra Kumamoto Stanley. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1998.

Pearlman, Mickey, ed. A Place Called Home: Twenty Writing Women Remember. Edited by Mickey Pearlman. 1st St. Martin's ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.

Smith, Lucinda. Women Who Write; From the Past and the Present to the Future. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Julian Messner, c1989.

Women Working in Literature. [videorecording] Written and narrated by Kathleen Fraser. San Francisco, CA: Poetry Center/American Poetry Archives, c1991.

Yang, Marianne Cristine. From Ethnicity to a Wider World; The Education of Kate Simon and Maxine Hong Kingston. 1992. [52p]

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ERIC Resources

ERIC resources are relatively inexpensive and provide both documents and references to periodical articles. If these links do not work, please search AskERIC directly.

"As Truthful as Possible." An Interview with Maxine Hong Kingston.

By Eric James Schroeder, from Writing on the Edge, 1996.

Class, Ethnicity and Gender in Maxine Hong Kingston's "China Men."

By Julia Lisella. From Race, Gender & Class, 1997.

Bakhtin, the King, and Kingston: Dialogizing "No Name Woman" and One-Name Man

By Sanford Tweedie, 1994.

Taking It Personally: Using Literature to Stimulate and Sustain Research

By Mary Barkley, 1994.

Fellow Rebels: Annie Dillard and Maxine Hong Kingston (Reclaiming the Canon)

By Joan Bischoff, English Journal, 1989.

Contemporary American Success Stories. Famous People of Asian Ancestry. Volume V.

By Barbara J. Marvis, 1995. Includes Florence Hongo; I. M. Pei, Maxine Hong Kingston, Sammy Lee, Joan Chen