The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts - Paperback

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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts - Paperback

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts - Paperback

by Maxine Hong Kingston
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Book Overview

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - An exhilarating blend of autobiography and mythology, of world and self, of hot rage and cool analysis. First published in 1976, it has become a classic in its innovative portrayal of multiple and intersecting identities--immigrant, female, Chinese, American. - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER

"A classic, for a reason." --Celeste Ng, bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts, via Twitter

As a girl, Kingston lives in two confounding worlds: the California to which her parents have immigrated and the China of her mother's "talk stories." The fierce and wily women warriors of her mother's tales clash jarringly with the harsh reality of female oppression out of which they come. Kingston's sense of self emerges in the mystifying gaps in these stories, which she learns to fill with stories of her own. A warrior of words, she forges fractured myths and memories into an incandescent whole, achieving a new understanding of her family's past and her own present.

Front Jacket

A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California childhood that have shaped her identity.
ISBN9780679721888
Author Maxine Hong Kingston
PublisherVintage Books USA
GenreBiography, History, and Education
FormatPaperback
PublishedApril 1989
LanguageENG- English
Pages224
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceTeens & young adults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Maxine Hong Kingston

Maxine Hong Kingston is the daughter of Chinese immigrants who operated a gambling house in the 1940s, when Maxine was born, and then a laundry where Kingston and her brothers and sisters toiled long hours. Kingston graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1962 from the University of California at Berkeley, and, in the same year, married actor Earll Kingston, whom she had met in an English course. The couple has one son, Joseph, who was born in 1963. They were active in antiwar activities in Berkeley, but in 1967 the Kingstons headed for Japan to escape the increasing violence and drugs of the antiwar movement. They settled instead in Hawai'i, where Kingston took various teaching posts. They returned to California 17 years later, and Kingston resumed teaching writing at the University of California, Berkeley.

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