Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston
By: edited by Paul Skenazy and Tera Martin.
Contributors: Skenazy, Paul.; Martin, Tera.
Series: Literary conversations series
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Kingston, Maxine Hong -- Interviews; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Interviews; Chinese Americans in literature; Chinese Americans -- Interviews
Description: "In this collection of interviews, Kingston talks about her life, her writing, and her objectives. From the first, her books have hovered along the hazy line between fiction and nonfiction, memoir and imagination. As she answers her critics and readers, she both clarifies the differences and exults in the difficulties of distinguishing between the remembered and the re-created." "She explains how she worked to bridge her parents' Chinese dialect with American slang, how she learned to explore her inheritance and find new relevance in her mother's "talk-stories," and how she developed the complex juxtapositions of myths and memoir that fill her books."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.