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First published in 1976, it has become a classic in its innovative portrayal of multiple and intersecting identitiesimmigrant, female, chinese, american. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. Tripmaster monkey is a powerful window into a brief period in wittmans life. The daughter of chinese immigrants, poet, memoirist, and fiction writer maxine hong kingston was born in stockton, california, and educated at the university of californiaberkeley. All i really want to do is sit and read or lie down and read or eat and read or shit and read. Download maxine hong kingston s the woman warrior in pdf and epub formats for free. In 1976 maxine hong kingston burst into american literature with the publication of the woman warrior. Maxine hong kingstons new book is a memoirinverse entitled, i love a broad margin to my life. Maxine hong kingston s the woman warrior download ebook pdf. Since then her subsequent workschina men 1980 and tripmaster monkey. See all books authored by maxine hong kingston, including the woman warrior. In representing the social, cultural and linguistic reality for the chinese american community living.
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