The woman warrior

By Maxine Hong Kingston

Subjects: Chinese in California, Chinese Americans, Chinese american women--california--biography, Biography, Chinese American women, Women, United states, biography, Ps3561.i52 w6 1989, American Authors, Chinese americans, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Chinese american women, Asian americans, Biographies, State & Local, Modern Literature, Families, General, Large type books, Women's Studies, HISTORY, Family, Kingston, maxine hong, Childhood and youth, E 184 .c5 k55w 1976, Asian Americans, Kingston, maxine hong, 1940-, Personal Narratives, Américains d'origine chinoise, Historical, Social life and customs, Asian, Women's Rights, Cultural Characteristics, Women's rights, 71.37 ethnic groups, History, Culture, Cultural characteristics, Personal narratives, Immigranten, Familykingston, maxine hong

Description: 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.