SOURCE: "The Woman Warrior: Claiming Narrative Power, Recreating Female Selfhood," in Faith of a (Woman) Writer, edited by Alice Kessler-Harris and William McBrien, Greenwood Press, 1988, pp. 293-301.
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 portrays an image of female selfhood that is both imaginative and realistic.
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