Conn, Peter. Pearl S. Buck. A Cultural Biography. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
83, n93
Maxine Hong Kingston
Standard Name: Kingston, Maxine Hong
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Meiling Jin | She was saved by the public Children's Library. She read omnivorously, beginning with the Dr Doolittle books (Hugh Lofting
) and fairy stories but missing out on Enid Blyton
(who was kept locked away)... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Meiling Jin | In the introduction to the book of poems that was her first publication, MJ
noted that poetry was a form of expression that comes easier to me than most others. This state of affairs was... |
| Literary responses | Pearl S. Buck | Maxine Hong Kingston
, meanwhile, said in 1992 that her search for Chinese women's voices was first answered by PSB
's work. |
Timeline
By 1975
The popularity of autobiographies and novels like Maxine Hong Kingston
's Woman Warrior and Rita Mae Brown
's Rubyfruit Jungle had opened a large and growing reading market for coming-of-age works by women writers from...