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Novelist Maxine Hong Kingston was born in the United States to Chinese immigrant parents. Her writing centers on the experience of Chinese-American culture and is part of a multiculturalist critique that challenges images which represent the culture of the United States as homogenous. Her first book, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts (1976), is an autobiography that details her own journey to integrate the Chinese and American elements in her life, interweaving them with a feminist perspective. In her books, the traditions of narrative are undermined, just as she undermines any one view of culture or history.
Kingston, Maxine Hong. China Men. London, Picador, 1981
Lim, Shirley. Approaches to Teaching Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior. New York, Lang, 1991