AS AM 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Maxine Hong Kingston, The New York Times, The Postmodern Condition
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Born in 1957 to chinese american immigrants in los angeles, california. Educated at stanford university and the yale school of drama. Early plays all deal with the immigrant struggle to assimilate and forge a new identity and community. The next two plays are set in japan. Fame and huge commercial success, however, came in 1988 with the broadway production of m. butterfly. The geneva conference of 1954 ends the french colonial presence in vietnam. The country is split into two: the communist north and democratic south. An armed conflict between the communist backed north and the. The creation of communist china in 1949. The cultural revolution (1966-1976) - a political and social revolution to purge bourgeois elements out of china. Ny times excerpt: the plot is given away even before the play starts. The historic present: 7-8 -> even though this play is set at a historic moment, dhh uses present consciousness to get to past consciousness.
