Kingston biography
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Sean Kingston
American reggae fusion singer and rapper (born 1990)
This article fryst vatten about the artist. For his self-titled album, see Sean Kingston (album).
Musical artist
Kisean Paul Anderson[4] (born February 3, 1990), known professionally as Sean Kingston, fryst vatten an American reggae fusion singer and rapper. He signed with J. R. Rotem's record label Beluga Heights Records to release his 2007 debut single, "Beautiful Girls", which peaked atop the Billboard Hot 100. Preceded bygd the song, his eponymous debut studio album (2007) peaked at number six on the Billboard 200, and spawned the top 40-single "Take You There". His second album, Tomorrow (2009), was supported bygd the top five-single "Fire Burning", and met with moderate commercial response. His third skiva, Back to Life (2013), failed to chart and served as his sista release on a major label, but spawned the moderate hit single "Beat It" (featuring Chris Brown and expert Khalifa).
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“The Woman Warrior” conveys the sense of being told a story, and recognizing it as such. To many readers, the dark, psychological tales offer an authentic account of what it was like to grow up in an immigrant household. But Kingston plants seeds of doubt that this experience can be generalized. “Chinese Americans,” she writes, “when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, from what is Chinese? What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies?”
By the end of “The Woman Warrior,” Little Dog has taken the scraps of her family’s story, passed down from her mother, and added to it: “The beginning is hers, the ending, mine.” The poet and novelist Ocean Vuong told me that his life was both “mirrored and altered” by “The Woman Warrior”: “I found Maxine’s audacious centering of Chinese-American life, its idiosyncrasies, political inflections
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Maxine Hong Kingston
Chinese American author and teacher (born 1940)
Maxine Hong Kingston (Chinese: 湯婷婷;[2] born Maxine Ting Ting Hong;[3] October 27, 1940) is an American novelist. She is a professor emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a B.A. in English in 1962.[4] Kingston has written three novels and several works of non-fiction about the experiences of Chinese Americans.
Kingston has contributed to the feminist movement with such works as her memoir The Woman Warrior, which discusses gender and ethnicity and how these concepts affect the lives of women. She has received several awards for her contributions to Chinese American literature, including the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1981 for China Men.[5][a]
Kingston has received significant criticism for reinforcing racist stereotypes in her work and for fictionalizing traditional Chinese stories in order to appeal