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“... The subtitle of Maxine HongKingston’s first book, The Woman Warrior (now published in paperback), embodies a pun: ‘Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts’ – that is to say, among Chinese story-ghosts and also among non-Chinese, who by definition are ghosts, if not demons ...”

“... the [auto]biographies (now she’s got me doing it) of highly conscious craftsmen like Hemingway, Maxine HongKingston and Michael Ondaatje: she offers an engrossing scholarly analysis of the fragments and corrected drafts which became Hemingway’s A Movable Feast, presenting it as an experiment in describing the ...”

“... dead white males) like Chaucer and Dickens had given way to Batman, Louis L’Amour and Maxine HongKingston. Literature and history now worked exclusively ‘from below’. Stanley Hauerwas’s pronouncement that ‘the canon of great literature was created by high-Anglican assholes to underwrite their ...”

“... of Grass’s Danzig-become-Gdansk, of Joyce’s abandoned Dublin, of Isaac Bashevis Singer and Maxine HongKingston and Milan Kundera and many others. It’s a long list.) On the other hand, the Indian writer, looking back at India, does so through guilt-tinted spectacles. (I am, of course, once more, talking about ...”