541 pages
English language
Published Aug. 7, 2005 by Everyman's Library.
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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.
Subjects
- Kingston, Maxine Hong -- Childhood and youth.
- Kingston, Maxine Hong -- Family.
- Chinese Americans -- California -- Social life and customs.
- Chinese Americans -- History.
- Chinese Americans -- California -- Biography.
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
- California -- Biography.