Maxine Hong Kingston Bücher

Maxine Hong Kingston wächst in zwei scheinbar unvereinbaren Welten auf: im individualistischen Kalifornien der 1940er-Jahre, wohin ihre Eltern migrierten, und in dem in den Geschichten ihrer Mutter, Tapfere Orchidee, heraufbeschworenen China – einem Land voller Geisterglauben und Schrecken, Tradition und Zusammenhalt, das im harschen Widerspruch zur misogynen Wirklichkeit von starken, findigen Frauen bevölkert wird. Mit der Aufgabe betraut, jene unsichtbare Welt der Geister und Wunder in Einklang zu bringen mit den Bedingungen der neuen Heimat, begibt sich Kingston schließlich auf die Suche nach ihrem eigenen Platz in der Welt. Sie findet ihn in den rätselhaften Lücken, die ihr die Erzählungen der Mutter offenbaren. Kingstons so zorniges wie bezauberndes, vielschichtiges wie selbstbewusstes Die Schwertkämpferin ist ein bahnbrechendes Werk über Emigration und Identität, angesiedelt zwischen Fiktion und Erinnerung, Folklore und Familiengeschichte, ein ständiges Hin und Her zwischen dem profanen Alltag im Wäschereigeschäft der Familie und epischen, surrealen Traumlandschaften, das große emanzipative Kraft entfaltet.

The collection offers a bold retelling of America's national narrative through the lens of a Chinese immigrant's daughter. It intertwines personal experiences with broader historical themes, providing a unique perspective on identity, culture, and the immigrant experience in America. This groundbreaking work combines three books into one volume, showcasing the author's insights and storytelling prowess as she explores the complexities of her heritage and its impact on her understanding of the American story.

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.

With an introduction by Xiaolu GuoA classic memoir set during the Chinese revolution of the 1940s and inspired by folklore, providing a unique insight into the life of an immigrant in America.When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talking-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves. We could be heroines, swordswomen. Throughout her childhood, Maxine Hong Kingston listened to her mother's mesmerizing tales of a China where girls are worthless, tradition is exalted and only a strong, wily woman can scratch her way upwards. Growing up in a changing America, surrounded by Chinese myth and memory, this is her story of two cultures and one trenchant, lyrical journey into womanhood. Complex and beautiful, angry and adoring, Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior is a seminal piece of writing about emigration and identity. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1976 and is widely hailed as a feminist classic.

Wittman Ah Sing is an unstoppable hipster poet and playwright on the streets of San Francisco, after the Beats have left and before the hippies have arrived. He falls in love with Nancy the Beautiful, marries Tana, and chases his dream to write and stage an epic drama spanning America and China.