Object Details
- Artist
- Anthony Barboza, born 10 May 1944
- Sitter
- Maxine Hong Kingston, born 27 Oct 1940
- Exhibition Label
- Born Stockton, California
- Maxine Hong Kingston’s parents immigrated to the United States from China shortly before she was born. As a writer of both fiction and nonfiction, she has consistently turned to experiences of immigration and conveyed a sense of living between two distinct worlds.
- In The Woman Warrior: Memoir of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976), she observes: “Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fits in solid America.” Responding to this idea, the book weaves folk tales through the lives of several generations of women in a Chinese American family. The Woman Warrior won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction as Kingston relied heavily on autobiographical elements. Shortly thereafter, she won the National Book Award for China Men (1980), a collection of vignettes focused on her male family members, whom she also featured in The Woman Warrior.
- Nacida en Stockton, California
- Los padres de Maxine Hong Kingston emigraron de China a Estados Unidos poco después de nacer ella. Como escritora de ficción y no-ficción, ha abordado las experiencias de la inmigración, explorando la sensación de vivir entre dos mundos distintos.
- En La mujer guerrera: Memorias de una niñez entre fantasmas (1976), observa: “Los que somos de las primeras generaciones en Estados Unidos hemos tenido que descifrar cómo cabe en este país el mundo invisible que construyeron los emigrantes en torno a nuestra niñez”. El libro indaga en esta idea entretejiendo cuentos folclóricos con las vidas de varias generaciones de mujeres en una familia china- americana. La mujer guerrera ganó el Premio del Círculo Nacional de Críticos Literarios en no-ficción, ya que Kingston recurrió ampliamente a elementos autobiográficos. Poco después, Kingston ganó el Premio Nacional del Libro por China Men (1980), viñetas basadas en los hombres de su familia, que ya aparecen en La mujer guerrera.
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
- 1989
- Object number
- NPG.2008.67
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Copyright
- © Anthony Barboza
- Type
- Photograph
- Medium
- Chromogenic print
- Dimensions
- Image: 26.7 x 27.3cm (10 1/2 x 10 3/4")
- Sheet: 42 x 29.8cm (16 9/16 x 11 3/4")
- Mat: 71.1 x 55.9cm (28 x 22")
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- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- Location
- Currently not on view
- National Portrait Gallery
- Topic
- Nature & Environment\Plant
- Artwork
- Architecture\Window
- Maxine Hong Kingston: Female
- Maxine Hong Kingston: Arts & Culture\Literature\Writer\Novelist
- Maxine Hong Kingston: Literary awards\National Book Award
- Maxine Hong Kingston: National Humanities Medal
- Portrait
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.2008.67
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm44178a9a1-99a0-4c2d-8004-fa217dc717cb
