Category: The Woman Warrior

Published in 1976 as a work of nonfiction, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, by an American-Chinese woman writer, Maxine Hong Kingston, is comprised of multiple personal stories interwoven with elements of classical Chinese myths and several talk stories[footnoteRef:1] Kingston utilizes to highlight her matriarchal lineage. After rereading the novel, I figure…