The cover of the Vintage International hardcover edition of The Woman Warrior.
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts was written by Maxine Hong Kingston in 1975. It is semi-autobiographical, incorporating many elements of fiction. In any case, her work stands as an example of postmodernism in American Literature. http://www. ... http://www. ... A hardcover (or hardback or hardbound) book is bound with rigid protective covers (typically of cardboard covered with cloth or heavy paper) and a stitched spine. ... Maxine Hong Kingston (湯婷婷) (born October 27, 1940) is a Chinese American writer. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...
Through this novel, Kingston explores ethnicity and gender roles, especially in the context of her experience as a Chinese-American woman. The book is divided into five chapters: "No Name Woman"; "White Tigers"; "Shaman"; "At the Westen Palace" ; and "A Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe." In "No Name Woman" Kingston describes the suicide of her aunt after she gave birth to an illegitimate child. In "White Tigers" she creates a fantastic allegory in which she describes her childhood. She imagines herself as legendary Chinese woman warrior, Fa Mulan[1]. In "Shaman" she describes her mother's experience in Chinese medical school. She mixes fantasy and autobiography, detailing her mother's physical and mental battles with spirits and ghosts. In "At the Western Palace" she describes her aunt Moon Orchid's mental breakdown after she emigrates to the United States from China. Finally in "A Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe" she describes her childhood experiences in the California public school system, and her parents' attitudes toward her. This article or section should be merged with ethnic group Ethnicity is the cultural characteristics that connect a particular group or groups of people to each other. ... An allegory (from Greek αλλος, allos, other, and αγοÏευειν, agoreuein, to speak in public) is a figurative mode of representation conveying a meaning other than and in addition to the literal. ... Hua Mulan (花木蘭 hua1 mu4 lan2) is the heroine who joined an all-male army described in a famous Chinese non-fictional poem written during the period of the Northern Dynasties (420-589) and first collected in Yuefu, the Song Dynasty (960-1279) anthology of lyrics, songs, and poems. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 3rd 410,000 km² 402. ...
Awards
Winner 1976 - National Book Critics Circle Awards
The Woman Warrior was published by Vintage International [2].
See also Frank Chin[3] for another take on Chinese-American literature. ISBN: 0679721886 Frank Chin (趙å¥ç§€; pinyin: Zhà o Jià nxiù) (born February 25, 1940) is a Chinese-american author and playwright. ... The International Standard Book Number, or ISBN (sometimes pronounced is-ben), is a unique identifier for books, intended to be used commercially. ...
The WomanWarrior, of course, is all of the above, sequentially and simultaneously, a collage of genres.
One of the distinctive accomplishments of The WomanWarrior is that it crosses boundaries between genres, dictions, styles, between fact and fiction, as it crosses the boundaries between cultures, Chinese and American.
Her most significant addition, however, is the womanwarrior's marriage and childbearing while still in armor disguised as a man. In the original ballad, Mulan performs these roles sequentially; in Kingston's version, simultaneously.
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