The Woman Warrior
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The Woman Warrior

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ISBN-13:
9781447275220
Veröffentl:
2015
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.01.2015
Seiten:
252
Autor:
Maxine Hong Kingston
Gewicht:
196 g
Format:
195x128x25 mm
Serie:
Picador Classics
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:

Maxine Hong Kingston is a Chinese-American writer of fiction and non-fiction. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley.
A seminal piece of writing about emigration and identity
A seminal piece of writing about emigration and identity

With an introduction by Xiaolu Guo

A classic memoir set during the Chinese revolution of the 1940s and inspired by folklore, providing a unique insight into the life of an immigrant in America.

When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talking-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves. We could be heroines, swordswomen.

Throughout her childhood, Maxine Hong Kingston listened to her mother's mesmerizing tales of a China where girls are worthless, tradition is exalted and only a strong, wily woman can scratch her way upwards. Growing up in a changing America, surrounded by Chinese myth and memory, this is her story of two cultures and one trenchant, lyrical journey into womanhood.

Complex and beautiful, angry and adoring, Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior is a seminal piece of writing about emigration and identity. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1976 and is widely hailed as a feminist classic.

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