Maxine hong kingston biography literary criticism

Julia Alvarez: When I started writing Latino literature hadn't been invented. You know, ethnic literature hadn't been invented.

African American literature was just starting to be- certain books were put into the curriculum.

Maxine hong kingston biography literary criticism

And I think Maxine Hong The Woman Warrior really was a moment in which  the mainstream culture said oh my goodness, this is beautiful. This is lyrical. This is American literature. You know, this is part of who we are, these stories of people that have come from somewhere else, and along with everything else that they've brought they brought their stories.

They brought something that is enriching to the culture.

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But I think part of me was afraid of telling the stories, telling the stories. Maxine Hong Kingston starts out The Woman Warrior with a line that I think could start  off any Latina's novel from that generation. "My mother told me never, ever to repeat this story." And then she te