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Maxine Hong Kingston and Maya Angelou: Autobiographical Reflections of Women

and Global Perspectives. Ed. Shirley Hune et al, WA: Washington State UP, 1991. 225-38. Kingston, Maxine Hong. 1976. The Woman ...

Community in Maxine Hong Kingston's 'No Name Woman' and 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

actions related to their sense of community. A small agricultural community generally lives on the edge of survival. What holds t...

American Daughters and Asian Mothers

In eight pages the complex relationships between Asian mothers and their American daughters as described in Maxine Hong Kingston's...

Multiple Viewpoints in "The Woman Warrior"

Kingston makes much of the idea of the oral tradition, and her inability to partake in it. The ability to use language is vital fo...

Woman Warrior Memoirs of a Childhood Among Ghosts and China Man by Maxine Hong Kingston

convey false information. Instead her style is meant to expose the reader to cultural considerations in a manner which few reader...

Women's Invisibility

In five pages this paper analyzes 'invisible' women not by choice in No Name Woman by Maxine Hong Kingston and The Color Purple by...

Example of an Interpretive Essay

The big red bus slowed to a stop. Wittman got off to stretch his legs for a moment. He almost bumped into the woman that he...

Language and the Power It Wields Demonstrated in Literature

In five pages this paper examines how the power of language is considered in Margaret Atwood's essay 'An End to Audience' and how ...

Important Post Second World War Works of Literature

Don Delillos "White Noise" and Maxine Hong Kingstons "The Woman Warrior." Invisible Man As mentioned, many argue that Ralph El...

Contemporary Literature and How Emotions Are Portrayed

In five pages this paper examines how emotions are portrayed in the contemporary literary works The Things They Carried by Tim O'B...

Relationship Between Mother and Daughter in Warrior Woman by Maxine Hong Kingston

duality of the cultures are reflected in various ways by Kingston, the constant switching between myth and reality, Chinese emotio...

Maxine Hong Kingston: “No Name Woman”

only author struggling with this issue; the subject is frequently explored today by people of many ethnic backgrounds. For instanc...

Chapter Summaries/I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Plot: After a brief prologue that introduces the reader to Maya, aka Marguerite, the first chapter fills in the reader on her back...

Issues in Asian American Literature

This paper offers ten brief essays, with each essay roughly one-page in length and pertaining to issues that addressed in Asian Am...

Maxine Hong Kingston/Warrior Woman

property rather than fellow human beings. Tourist information on St. Thomas indicates that St. Thomas Market Square is today a "...

Sense of Self in The Warrior Woman by Maxine Hong Kingston

In six pages this paper examines Kingston's autobiography in terms of how a woman's sense of self is bolstered by the author throu...

Angelou's I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings and Problem of Racism

Maya Angelou's autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, is fundamentally a detailed examination of racism. The writer argue...

Complexities of Maya Angelou's Autobiographical I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

of kindness, I would k unable to say anything in his behalf. His confidence that my uncle and every other Black man who heard of...

'Raise the Red Lantern' and 'Woman Warrior'

This paper consisting of 5 pages compares the ideas contained in the film Raise the Red Lantern' to the text written by Maxine Hon...

Personal Narrative Essays

In five pages personal narrative essays 'Once More to the Lake' by E.B. White and 'Silence' by Maxine Hong Kingston are contrasted...

Maxine Hong Kingston, Thomas Pynchon and Postmodern Literature

In five pages this paper examines postmodernism in a comparative analysis of Tripmaster Monkey and His Fake Book by Maxine Hong Ki...

Depiction of Asian Americans

(Benshoff and Griffin 132). A voiceover at the beginning of the film explains that because of this law, 1940s Chinatown was exclus...

Angelou: “Phenomenal Woman”

When she heard about the murder, she "fell silent and did not speak for five years" (Bloom). She began to speak once more when she...

All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou

through Angelous eyes. While Angelou speculates that it would take living in total despair, hopelessly oppressed to fully comprehe...

Maya Angelou/Phenomenal Woman

half=way through the stanza, Angelou prefaces giving her reaction with the line "I say," which is followed by her lyrical descript...

Maya Angelou's Poem 'Woman Work'

is left out: herself. "Shine on me, sunshine Rain on me, rain...

Maya Angelou's 'And Still I Rise'

in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt...

Psychological Theory and 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings' by Maya Angelou

into their conception habits, for they are an intrinsic component of being. "Life is a self-renewing process through action upon ...

Maya Angelou: Million Man March

in spite of that, is often hopeful, even joyous. This paper explicates her poem "Million Man March." Discussion The theme of the ...

Trekkies, Russell and Black Experience

describes the Tiger beetle, which is "often brightly patterned" in a manner that looks "like small jewels" (Russell 222). Her desc...