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Kingston At Work

• GETTING ESTABLISHED
• CRITICAL RECEPTION
• NOTES

GETTING ESTABLISHED

As a young girl Kingston developed the habit of writing down her thoughts and ideas. From these notes she developed her first two books, The Woman Warrior and China Men. Much of The Woman Warrior was written in Hawaii, though Kingston admits that she had been working on the book ever since she started writing as a child: “In a sense you could say that 1 was working on these books for 20 or 30 years, but in another sense I wrote them just a few years ago.”¹ In contrast to the cramped conditions in which the young Kingston had to struggle to find the space to write, Hawaii offered an ideal working atmosphere. The tranquility of the islands allowed her the opportunity to think, and the Hawaiian landscapes heightened...

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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