What is the author's style in Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book by Maxine Hong Kingston?

There are far too many literary allusions and references to popular culture for any one reader to grasp in Kingston's novel. Wittman's thoughts are a montage of movies, books, plays, Chinese myth, songs, theater, and his own imagination. His thoughts frequently take flight into pages-long images or sagas that may be retellings of Chinese myths, Wittman's own writings, or simply flights of fantasy. In his role as eternal trickster/hero, Wittman often indulges in erudite pu