The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts Library Binding Maxine Hong Kingston

from BrynDahlquis

I didn't particularly enjoy this novel/memoir, though it is definitely intriguing. I just wanted a lot more. It left me with a lot of questions that maybe I'd know if I were more familiar with Chinese culture, but I'm not. That's kind of why I read the book, to become more familiar with it. Like,...

from eesti23

The Woman Warrior creates an account of a girl who grows up in America amongst her Chinese family and community. The novel moves from point to point in time, mainly in a story-telling type way. Stories about older relatives lives in China are mixed with stories of life in America and this at time...

from PinkPandaParade

Probably most intriguing about the structure of Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman Warrior, beginning with "No Name Woman" and ending in A Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe," is that it characterizes Maxine Hong Kingston's memoir, told in the interesting format of non-sequential episodes, as one that begi...

from mldg

Maxine Hong Kingston tells how the ancient patriarchal Chinese society still oppressed her as an American born Chinese female. She tells of the struggle to find freedom and self-worth with a mixture of legend and personal experience. In the end she learns to speak for herself and find independenc...

from dbsovereign

A feminist book that is autobiograhical and empowering, it sets us straight on how it is that second-generation folks from immigrant families struggle to turn themselves into "warriors." Kingston tells us what it was like growing up in Chinatown (San Francisco) by providing rich, informative deta...