The Resource The fifth book of peace, Maxine Hong Kingston
The fifth book of peace, Maxine Hong Kingston
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- Summary
- The Fifth Book of Peace opens as Maxine Hong Kingston, driving home from her father's funeral in the early 1990s, discovers that her neighborhood in the Oakland-Berkeley hills is engulfed in flames. Her home burns to the ground, and with it, all her earthly possessions, including her novel-in-progress. Kingston, who at the time was deeply disturbed by the Persian Gulf War, decides that she must understand her own loss of all she possessed as a kind of shadow-experience of war: a lesson about what it would be like to experience up close its utter devastation. Thus she embarks on a mission to re-create her novel from scratch, to rebuild her life, and to reach out to veterans of war and share with them her views as a lover of peace. In the middle section of this remarkable book, Kingston reconstructs for us her lost novel, the lush and compelling story of the Chinese-American Wittman Ah Sing and his wife, Tana -- California artists who flee to Hawaii to evade the draft during the Vietnam War. Wittman and Tana help to create an official Sanctuary for deserters and GIs who've returned devastated by their experiences in Vietnam -- not unlike, as it turns out, the metaphorical sanctuary Maxine creates, back in her real world, by inviting war veterans to participate in writing workshops. As the vets share their stories, she teaches them both the value of writing -- the accurate transcription of what is in the heart -- and the value of community. Paradoxically, the stories of war and its terrors become for her and the vets a literature of peace -- words that enable them to achieve peace, at least within themselves. Moving among the vets with her Buddhist-inflected wisdom and at times humorous self-doubts, weaving their stories together with her own struggle to reorient herself after the fire, Maxine Hong Kingston is at times a kind of sprite, an almost weightless spirit, who guides others toward a better place, and at times a challenging teacher, who will not let us turn from the spectacle of a world so often at war
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Extent
- 401 p.
- Contents
-
- Fire
- Paper
- Water
- Earth
- Epilogue
- Permissions acknowledgments
- Isbn
- 9780679440758
- Label
- The fifth book of peace
- Title
- The fifth book of peace
- Statement of responsibility
- Maxine Hong Kingston
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The Fifth Book of Peace opens as Maxine Hong Kingston, driving home from her father's funeral in the early 1990s, discovers that her neighborhood in the Oakland-Berkeley hills is engulfed in flames. Her home burns to the ground, and with it, all her earthly possessions, including her novel-in-progress. Kingston, who at the time was deeply disturbed by the Persian Gulf War, decides that she must understand her own loss of all she possessed as a kind of shadow-experience of war: a lesson about what it would be like to experience up close its utter devastation. Thus she embarks on a mission to re-create her novel from scratch, to rebuild her life, and to reach out to veterans of war and share with them her views as a lover of peace. In the middle section of this remarkable book, Kingston reconstructs for us her lost novel, the lush and compelling story of the Chinese-American Wittman Ah Sing and his wife, Tana -- California artists who flee to Hawaii to evade the draft during the Vietnam War. Wittman and Tana help to create an official Sanctuary for deserters and GIs who've returned devastated by their experiences in Vietnam -- not unlike, as it turns out, the metaphorical sanctuary Maxine creates, back in her real world, by inviting war veterans to participate in writing workshops. As the vets share their stories, she teaches them both the value of writing -- the accurate transcription of what is in the heart -- and the value of community. Paradoxically, the stories of war and its terrors become for her and the vets a literature of peace -- words that enable them to achieve peace, at least within themselves. Moving among the vets with her Buddhist-inflected wisdom and at times humorous self-doubts, weaving their stories together with her own struggle to reorient herself after the fire, Maxine Hong Kingston is at times a kind of sprite, an almost weightless spirit, who guides others toward a better place, and at times a challenging teacher, who will not let us turn from the spectacle of a world so often at war
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kingston, Maxine Hong
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3561.I52
- LC item number
- F44 2003
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Kingston, Maxine Hong
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975
- Authors, American
- Draft resisters
- Hawaii
- Peace
- Label
- The fifth book of peace, Maxine Hong Kingston
- Contents
- Fire -- Paper -- Water -- Earth -- Epilogue -- Permissions acknowledgments
- Control code
- 50651599
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Extent
- 401 p.
- Isbn
- 9780679440758
- Lccn
- 2002034103
- Label
- The fifth book of peace, Maxine Hong Kingston
- Contents
- Fire -- Paper -- Water -- Earth -- Epilogue -- Permissions acknowledgments
- Control code
- 50651599
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Extent
- 401 p.
- Isbn
- 9780679440758
- Lccn
- 2002034103
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