The Woman Warrior Summary
Maxine Hong Kingston

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The Woman Warrior Summary

The Woman Warrior experienced immediate success upon its publication in 1976. It became an instant bestseller and secured a place in the top ten nonfiction books of the decade. Because Maxine Hong Kingston deals with stories of growth in individuals and among generations in two different cultures, teachers from various disciplines utilize the book to supplement their instruction. Some use it to discuss women's topics, while others find it serves well to encourage and...

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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts - Maxine Hong Kingston - 1976

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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... Read more

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts

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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... Read more

Maxine Hong Kingston Biographies (5)

Maxine Hong Kingston

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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... Read more

Maxine Hong Kingston

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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... Read more

Maxine Hong Kingston

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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... Read more

Maxine (Ting Ting) Hong Kingston

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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... Read more

Maxine (Ting Ting) Hong Kingston

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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 ... Read more

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Maxine Hong Kingston - No Name Woman

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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... Read more

The Symbol of the Bird in "The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts"

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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."... Read more

Kingston's Ideal Life

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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... Read more

No Name Woman, The Issue of Community Control

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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... Read more

"I" Is for Identity: The Woman Warrior

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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... Read more

Finding the Voice to Speak

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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... Read more

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