The woman warrior
memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts
by Maxine Hong Kingston
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A memoir of the American-born daughter of Chinese immigrants who lived within the traditions and fears of the Chinese past as well as the realities of the alien modern American culture.
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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 Rights, Chinese americans, Women's Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Historical, HISTORY, State & Local, General, Culture, Asian, Kingston, maxine hong, Familykingston, maxine hong, Cultural characteristics, Asian americans, Chinese american women, Chinese american women--california--biography, Ps3561.i52 w6 1989, E 184 .c5 k55w 1976People
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The woman warrior: memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts
1990, Knopf : distributed by Random House
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The woman warrior: memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts
1989, Vintage Books
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1976, Knopf : distributed by Random House
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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.
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