The Woman Warrior
The Woman Warrior1976
About this book
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.
Details
- First published
- 1976
- OL Work ID
- OL1822441W
Subjects
American AuthorsAsian AmericansBiographyChildhood and youthChinese AmericansChinese in CaliforniaCultural CharacteristicsFamilyHistoryPersonal narrativesSocial life and customsWomen's rightsImmigrantenChinese American womenAméricains d'origine chinoiseBiographiesFamiliesModern Literature