The woman warrior

memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts

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209 pages

English language

Published Aug. 7, 1989 by Vintage Books.

ISBN:
978-0-679-72188-8
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OCLC Number:
19756897

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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is Kingston's disturbing and fiercely beautiful account of growing up Chinese-American in California. The young Kingston lives in two worlds: the America to which her parents have immigrated and the China of her mother's "talk stories." Her mother tells her traditional tales of strong, wily women warriors - tales that clash puzzlingly with the real oppression of women. Kingston learns to fill in the mystifying spaces in her mother's stories with stories of her own, engaging her family's past and her own present with anger, imagination, and dazzling passion.

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A little confusing, but mainly because I'm not used to a lot of the culture within.

My wife is a quarter Chinese, and there were some aspects that helped me understand her upbringing a bit better.

However, on the whole, this was just not a book that I enjoyed or really understood.

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Subjects

  • Kingston, Maxine Hong
  • Asian Americans -- California -- personal narratives
  • Women's Rights -- personal narratives
  • Cultural Characteristics -- China -- personal narratives
  • United States -- Biography