Auteur : Christine Lorre , Christine Lorre-Johnston

Journal : Revue Française d'Etudes Américaines

Maxine Hong Kingston’s book I Love a Broad Margin to My Life is read here as a reexamination by the author of her links to the American Renaissance, specifically Henry David Thoreau’s and Walt Whitman’s works. By focusing on Thoreau’s early interest in Buddhism, using a form akin to Whitman’s long poem, and extending the trope of the margin, Kingston defines her personal, literary and intellectual heritage as an open one shaped by the historical and cultural flux between China and America, East and West.

Updated on 01/01/2013