The Woman Warrior

Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts

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"A Classic, for a reason" - Celeste Ng via Twitter In her award-winning book The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston created an entirely new form-an exhilarating blend of autobiography and mythology, of world and self, of hot rage and cool analysis. First published in 1976, it has become a classic in its innovative portrayal of multiple and intersecting identities-immigrant, female, Chinese, American. As a girl, Kingston lives in two confounding worlds: the California to which her parents have immigrated and the China of her mother's "talk stories." The fierce and wily women warriors of her mother's tales clash jarringly with the harsh reality of female oppression out of which they come. Kingston's sense of self emerges in the mystifying gaps in these stories, which she learns to fill with stories of her own. A warrior of words, she forges fractured myths and memories into an incandescent whole, achieving a new understanding of her family's past and her own present.
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Kingston, Maxine Hong (Senior Lecturer
Titel
The Woman Warrior
Uitgever
Random House USA Inc
Jaar
1989
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
209
Gewicht
209 gr
EAN
9780679721888
Afmetingen
203 x 133 x 19 mm
Bindwijze
Paperback

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