{"product_id":"9781598537246","title":"Maxine Hong Kingston: The Woman Warrior, China Men, Tripmaster Monkey, Hawai'i One Summer, Other Writings (LOA #355)","description":"By: Maxine Hong Kingston     \u003chr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"US - Hardback","offer_id":46415147172067,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9781598537246","price":288.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9781598537246.jpg?v=1748859277","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/zh\/products\/9781598537246","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}