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Kingston On Kingston

• KINGSTON ON FEMINISM
• KINGSTON ON WAR AND PEACE
• KINGSTON ON HER PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY
• KINGSTON ON RACIAL STEREOTYPES
• KINGSTON ON GLOBALISM
• KINGSTON ON CHINESE AMERICANS
• KINGSTON ON THE CHINESE AMERICAN WRITER
• KINGSTON ON WRITING
• KINGSTON ON WRITING AND MEMORY
• KINGSTON ON READING
• NOTES

As a child Kingston found the essay form difficult to learn because she was more interested in imaginative creation than in logical argument. But the publication of her essay “Literature in a Scientific Age: Lorenz’ King Solomon’s Ring” in English Journal in 1973 helped to convince her that she could think and present her ideas rationally in the...

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1. Introduction
2. About Maxine Hong Kingston
3. Kingston At Work
4. Kingston’s Era
5. Kingston’s Works
6. Kingston On Kingston
7. Kingston As Studied
8. Study Questions
9. Bibliography
10. Copyright

1. Maxine Hong Kingston