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Bay Area Legends: Maxine Hong Kingston Changed What It Means to Tell an American Story

2025/5/29
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Alexis Madrigal: 作为 KQED 的主持人，我介绍 Maxine Hong Kingston 是一位文学明星，她的作品《女勇士》影响了无数作家。这本书融合了中国神话和移民生活，经久不衰，为后来的作家们开辟了道路。 Vanessa Hua: 我认为 Maxine Hong Kingston 为我们开辟了道路，她重述神话，超越官方记录，重塑了那些被历史遗忘的女性的故事。她的作品既有想象力，又带有恶作剧般的幽默感，展现了局外人的体验。 Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: 我第一次读《女勇士》时，我震惊了，它给予了我写作的许可，改变了我的职业生涯。这本书拥抱了你的历史，让你敢于讲述那些不为人知的故事。 Maxine Hong-Kingston: 我现在正在给我的孙女讲故事，用孩子的语言讲述那些吓人的故事。我像律师一样思考，我可以写下这些故事，但不必展示或发表。我写的故事和母亲讲的故事不一样，我赋予了故事形状和形式，人们阅读它而不是听到它。 Andrew Lam: Maxine Hong Kingston 的作品让我可以在非虚构作品中进行创作，在事实结束后开始想象。我认同《中国佬》中那种失去的世界的感觉，尝试品尝越南鱼露，记住家乡的味道。 Amy Phan: Maxine Hong Kingston 的作品激励学生们相信自己的话语很重要，解决了英语作为第二语言的问题，激励了学生们。她的生活激励了学生们，让他们意识到写作并不是遥不可及的事情。

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Chinese American literary pioneer Maxine Hong Kingston revolutionized storytelling with her groundbreaking 1976 book ‘The Woman Warrior,’ which blended reality and myth to capture the immigrant experience. As part of our Bay Area Legends series, we talk with Kingston – who grew up working in her parent’s Stockton laundry business and was an integral part of Berkeley’s counterculture movement – about her genre-defying work. And we check in with contemporary authors about Kingston’s lasting influence on their craft and the evolution of immigrant narratives in American literature.

Guests:

**Vanessa Hua, **author, Forbidden City; Hua's previous books include “A River of Stars”; former columnist, San Francisco Chronicle

**Aimee Phan, **author, "The Reeducation of Cherry Truong"; associate professor of writing and literature, California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

**Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, **novelist, short story writer and poet; Her most recent novel "Independence" won the American Book Award in 2024.

**Maxine Hong-Kingston, **author

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