SOURCE: "A Marginal 'I': The Autobiographical Self Deconstructed in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior," in Biography, Vol. 17, No. 3, Summer, 1994, pp. 281-95.
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 memoir in The Woman Warrior.
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