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...seven minutes after the hour, a minuscule lady with long glimmering gray hair took her place in front of the podium (she was too short to stand be seen standing behind it). At first, it was hard to believe that this gentle, unassuming woman was the famous Maxine Hong Kingston whose ideas had had such a large impact upon American literature. It soon became obvious, though, that her true power lay not in an imposing presence, but in her beautiful gift for words...
...Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston...
Maxine Hong Kingston was coming to Harvard. Posters were up everywhere heralding her arrival, and word of mouth carried her name across the campus. On the night of the event, drenching rain could not deter the hundreds of students and faculty members who crowded into Science Center B, dripping umbrellas in one hand and copies of Kingston's various books (e.g. The Woman Warrior, China Men, Tripmaster Monkey) in the other...
...Kingston's is a well-known name both for the quality of her writing and for the controversy surrounding her books. Her literature about growing up as a Chinese-American girl has been acclaimed as the finest of its genre. The Woman Warrior won the National Book Critics Circle Award for the best work of nonfiction when it was first published, and Kingston herself has been declared a "Living Treasure" by the state of Hawaii...
...same time, Kingston has been labeled a radical feminist, a fake and a traitor to her Chinese heritage. But the popularity of her books is incontestable. These antinostalgic nonfiction memoirs recount the sometimes fantastical tales of her childhood. Many times, her own life-stories are intertwined with myth and story-telling, as if Kingston herself had a hard time distinguishing between the two. This melding of fact and fiction has brought criticism from some quarters, and praise from others...