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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts - Maxine Hong Kingston - 1976
Introduction
Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of A Girlhood Among Ghosts is one of the first...
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts
by Maxine Hong Kingston
Born in Stockton, California, in 1940, as a first-generation Chinese American, Maxine Hong Kingston grew up under the s...
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Biography EssayOne of the most outspoken contemporary feminist writers, Maxine Hong Kingston states in her autobiographical book The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976), "The swor...
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Maxine Hong Kingston (born 1940) is one of the first Asian American writers in the United States to achieve great acclaim for both her nonfiction and fiction. With her vivid portrayals of the magic of...
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Called "the most influential Asian American author of the twentieth century," by Keith Lawrence and John Dye, writing in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Maxine Hong Kingston has made the Chinese...
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One of the most outspoken contemporary feminist writers, Maxine Hong Kingston states in her autobiographical book The Woman Warrior (1976), "The swordswoman and I are not so dissimilar.... What we hav...
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Maxine Hong Kingston easily is the most influential Asian American author of the twentieth century. Kingston's first book, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts (1976), was an instant ...
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Critical Essay by William Mcpherson
The Woman Warrior is a strange, sometimes savagely terrifying and, in the literal sense, wonderful story of growing up caught between two highly sophisticated and u...
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Critical Essay by Jane Kramer
["The Woman Warrior"] is a brilliant memoir. It shocks us out of our facile rhetoric, past the clichés of our obtuseness, back to the mystery of a st...
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Critical Essay by Paul Gray
Exiles and refugees tell sad stories of the life they left behind. Even sadder, sometimes, is the muteness of their children. They are likely to find the old ways and old l...
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Critical Essay by Elizabeth Fifer
In autobiography, the told story often is accompanied by the untold one. In Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, the idea of autobiography is accompanied ...
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Critical Essay by Linda B. Hall
In this exquisitely written book [The Woman Warrior], Maxine Hong Kingston has given us a picture of the American life of a Chinese-American woman, mediated through the...
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Critical Essay by John Leonard
"China Men" contemplates exile; it seeks to explain exile by recovering history from deceit. It is quite as wonderful as "The Woman Warrior,"...
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Critical Essay by Mary Gordon
"China Men," using the same techniques as "The Woman Warrior"—the blend of myth, legend and history, the fevered voice, relentless as a...
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Critical Essay by Anne Tyler
China Men is not a sequel to The Woman Warrior but a companion piece, an amplification. It revolves, again, around the author's family, who operated a laundry in St...
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In the following review of The Woman Warrior, Homsher lauds the volume and analyzes Kingston's fictionalized approach to autobiography.
Reading The Woman Warrior, one gets an immediate impressi...
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In the following essay, Johnston explores Kingston's use of myth in The Woman Warrior.
In The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston explores the relation between a mythic, three-dimensional reali...
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TuSmith has been an professor of English at Bowling Green State University and is the author of All My Relatives: Community in Contemporary Ethnic Literatures. In the following essay, she considers Ki...
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In the following essay, Melchior explores the issues of identity, the traditional Western concept of self, and the American tradition of autobiography raised by Kingston's rendering of her memo...
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In the following essay, Nishime traces Kingston's treatment of gender and ethnicity in The Woman Warrior and China Men, and discusses how genre illuminates the author's concept of identi...
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Goldman has taught women's studies at the University of Victoria and Canadian literature at the University of Toronto. In the following essay, she assesses The Woman Warrior as a postmodern wor...
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In the following essay, Mylan examines what she terms as elements of Orientalism in Kingston's portrayal of her mother in The Woman Warrior.
In the time since Edward Said's Orientalism w...
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In the following essay, Mitchell delineates Kingston's integration of oral storytelling into her written narrative in The Woman Warrior.
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, b...
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In the following essay, Hunt examines Kingston's treatment of the conflict and confusion created by her various roles as a woman and as a member of separate and distinct cultures and classes.
F...
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In the following essay, Li surveys how Kingston establishes a uniquely Chinese-American female identity in The Woman Warrior.
In a span of twelve years since the publication of her first book, The Wom...
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Frye is an American educator and the author of Living Stories, Telling Lives: Women and the Novel in Contemporary Experience. In the following essay, she argues that in The Woman Warrior, Kingston por...
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In the following essay, Schueller provides an analysis of The Woman Warrior as a work that offers insight into issues of racial, national, and gender identity.
Ever since its publication in 1976, Maxi...
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Ho is an American educator. In the following essay, she studies the interplay between mother and daughter in The Woman Warrior, and discusses how this interaction illuminates racial and gender-based c...
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Begum is an educator who has taught literature and feminist criticism at Bowling Green State University. In the following essay, she surveys the manner in which Kingston establishes her own identity a...
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Born in Hong Kong, Wong has been a professor in the Asian American studies program at the University of California, Berkeley, and is the author of From Necessity to Extravagance: Contexts and Intertex...
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A person's identity cannot be given to her, instead a person must achieve a sense of her character through personal experience and self-reflection. In "No Name Woman", Maxine Hong Kingston recalls t...
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In the autobiography "The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts", an ordinary bird symbol is used frequently throughout the chapter "White Tigers" and occasionally in the chapter "Shaman."...
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In the chapter "White Tigers" from her book The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston first fantasizes of a Chinese woman warrior before switching back to the reality of her American life as a woma...
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Each community often develops a system of control to maintain social order. Some communities instill this order by legal codes, and other communities use moral or social codes to keep their comm...
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"I" is for Identity
Maxine Hong Kingston, the author of "The Woman Warrior", has sorted out her struggles as a Chinese-American by devoting the pages of this novel to her conflicts and confusion. B...
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Finding the voice to speak
"The Woman Warrior" consists of five stories which focuses on five women: Kingston's long-dead aunt, "No-Name Woman"; a mythical female warrior, Fa Mu Lan; Kingston's mothe...
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Teaching The Woman Warrior
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Critical Essay by William Mcpherson
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