The woman warrior
memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts
Vintage International ed.
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Publication
1989 - Vintage International, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
52,250 words, Guess
Page Count
209 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100679721886
- ISBN-139780679721888
- Library of Congress Control Number2003272424
- Open LibraryOL3704474M
- Open LibraryOL18821157M
Classifications
- DDC979.4/053/092
- DDCB
- LCCE184.C5 K5 1989
Description
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.
Description
A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories, and events of her California childhood that have shaped her identity.
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