Reading: Maxine Hong Kingston

Presenter Information

Maxine Hong Kingston

Location

Memorial Union Ballroom

Event Website

http://www.undwritersconference.org

Start Date

31-3-2011 8:00 PM

End Date

31-3-2011 9:00 PM

Description

In this audiovisual recording from Thursday, March 31, 2011, as part of the 42nd Annual UND Writers Conference: "(Inter)National Affairs," Maxine Hong Kingston discusses and reads excerpts from her new book I Love a Broad Margin to My Life, written entirely in verse form. Kingston explains how her new book gave her the opportunity to finish some stories from books she’d written previously, including “No Name Woman” from The Woman Warrior. Kingston also discusses the writing processes for her books Tripmaster Monkey, The Woman Warrior, and I Love a Broad Margin to My Life. In a question and answer session after the reading, Kingston talks about the influence of other writers, including Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau, on her work. Additionally, she discusses the inspiration behind her book Hawai’i One Summer.

Introduced by J. Colleen Berry.

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Reading: Maxine Hong Kingston

Memorial Union Ballroom

In this audiovisual recording from Thursday, March 31, 2011, as part of the 42nd Annual UND Writers Conference: "(Inter)National Affairs," Maxine Hong Kingston discusses and reads excerpts from her new book I Love a Broad Margin to My Life, written entirely in verse form. Kingston explains how her new book gave her the opportunity to finish some stories from books she’d written previously, including “No Name Woman” from The Woman Warrior. Kingston also discusses the writing processes for her books Tripmaster Monkey, The Woman Warrior, and I Love a Broad Margin to My Life. In a question and answer session after the reading, Kingston talks about the influence of other writers, including Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau, on her work. Additionally, she discusses the inspiration behind her book Hawai’i One Summer.

Introduced by J. Colleen Berry.

https://commons.und.edu/writers-conference/2011/day3/1