One 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 swordswoman and I are not so dissimilar. . . . What we have in common are...
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 have in common are the words at our backs. The idioms for...
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 commercial and critical triumph. Since its first appea...
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 texts to use autobiography to voice concerns about...
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 sometimes competing influences of Chinese and American...
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is a book by Maxine Hong Kingston, published by Vintage Books in 1975. It is semi-autobiographical, incorporating many elements of fiction. It is an example of postmodernism in American literature,...
WHEN THE news came of Betty Friedan's death on her 85th birthday, I remembered Aug. 26, 1970, the Women's Strike for Equality. I remembered Betty Friedan parading down New York's Fifth Avenue, with tens of thousands of exhilarated women behind her. I also...
Welcoming the woman warrior Handful of Mulan films in works By WINNIE CHUNG Hollywood Reporter Thursday, July 24, 2003 Hong Kong -- She was a soldier's daughter, more at home with the gentle clicks of her loom than the harsh...
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 Intertexts in Asian American Literature. In the following essay, she surveys the controversial critical reaction to The Woman Warrior.
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 identity.
Discusses the symbolism of the bird in Maxine Hong Kingston's "Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts".
Keywords: China, Chinese, Chinese-American, autobiography
Reviews the autobiography No Name Woman, by Maxine Kingston. Examines the issue of community use of moral or social codes to control citizen behavior. Discusses the community control in a traditional Chinese community.
Analysis of Maxine Hong Kingston's chapter 'White Tigers' from her book "The Woman Warrior." Analyzes the juxtaposition of her fantasy of Fa Mu Lan with the reality of her own life.
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