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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts Maxine Hong Kingston
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Her philosophical stance mandates that we reconsider traditional distinctions between fiction and .. I later learned the essay is the first section of Maxine Hong Kingston's beloved 1976 memoir: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Amongst Ghosts. Kingston melds legend, her past, her family's past, and her present in a very narrative (as in story-esque) memoir. In 1976, she published her first novel, largely inspired by her childhood memories, The Woman Warrior:Memoires of a girlhood among ghosts. Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior: Memories of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (Vintage). The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston. It begins with an arresting first sentence. The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. A wonderful tale of multiculturalism in Arizona. Through the literary devices that she employs in The Woman Warrior and in interviews published since, Kingston demonstrates a unique understanding of the ways in which stories come to inform and shape individuals. New York: Vintage International Books, 1989. The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is a memoir by Maxine Hong Kingston, published by Vintage Books in 1975. Explores themes of authenticity, community, integrity, and truth. This is the story of Brave Orchid, a Chinese girl raised among the old ways, where sons were appreciated in a family, but daughters were usually to be sold or married as soon as possible. Kingston New York: Vintage, 1989. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989. Maxine Hong Kingston created a worldwide sensation with her 1976 work The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among the Ghosts and emerged one of the leading contemporary Chinese American writers.