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Stories of Maxine Hong Kingston, The

• 1990 ----- color ----- 54 min ----- vhs
• (A World of Ideas with Bill Moyers Series) Maxine Hong Kingston is the author of The Woman Warrior, China Men, and Tripmaster Monkey. In this conversation, she offers new images of America as a "melting pot" where the dutiful notions of the Puritans blend with the Monkey Spirit of the Orient to produce a new American consciousness. In Kingston's opinion, "People live with a lot of regrets because there's some choice they made that they think is wrong or there's some part of life that they think they've missed. You can't redo it in the sense of being young again, but you can redo it by working with your memories and feelings of that time--find meanings and values that come out of it and that's how you change the past."
• Topics: (American Ethnic Studies: Asian-American, Literature, Women Studies)

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