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The woman warrior
memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts
by Maxine Hong Kingston
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This edition was published in 1976 by Knopf : distributed by Random House in New York.
Written in English
— 209 pages
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.
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American Authors, Asian Americans, Biography, Childhood and youth, Chinese Americans, Chinese in California, Cultural Characteristics, Family, History, Personal narratives, Social life and customs, Women's rights, Immigranten, Chinese American women, Américains d'origine chinoise, Biographies, Families, Modern Literature, 71.37 ethnic groups, Women, United states, biography, Kingston, maxine hong, 1940-, Large type books, Personal Narratives, Women's RightsPreviews available in: English
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Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts
2015, Pan Macmillan
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
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The woman warrior: memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts
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The woman warrior: memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts
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Woman Warrior
June 1, 1989, Vintage Books USA
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The woman warrior: memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts
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Nü dou shih: gui ying tong tong zhong di xiao nü hui yi = [The woman warrior : memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts]
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The woman warrior
First published in 1976
Subjects
American Authors, Asian Americans, Biography, Childhood and youth, Chinese Americans, Chinese in California, Cultural Characteristics, Family, History, Personal narratives, Social life and customs, Women's rights, Immigranten, Chinese American women, Américains d'origine chinoise, Biographies, Families, Modern Literature, 71.37 ethnic groups, Women, United states, biography, Kingston, maxine hong, 1940-, Large type books, Personal Narratives, Women's RightsPeople
Maxine Hong KingstonPlaces
California, China, United StatesTimes
20th centuryWork 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.
The woman warrior
memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts
This edition was published in 1976 by Knopf : distributed by Random House in New York.
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