Title: Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: Chinese Americans, Interviews, American Authors, Chinese Americans in literature, Women and literature, Authors, American, History, Kingston, maxine hong, 1940-
Places: United States
People: Maxine Hong Kingston
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PS3561.I52 Z466 1998