Kingston uses women's stories to explore her own cultural history.

The Woman Warrior, a work that defies easy classification, is neither wholly a work of fiction nor, strictly speaking, an autobiography.A clever blend of fantasy, childhood memories, folklore, and family history, Kingston's work is revolutionary precisely because it transcends genres.
A physical war had given way to an ideological one—the Cold War. (Note that the fantasy is written in the first-person, in the present tense.

This is a list of women who engaged in war, found throughout mythology and folklore, studied in fields such as literature, sociology, psychology, anthropology, film studies, cultural studies, and women's studies.A mythological figure does not always mean a fictional one, but rather, someone of whom stories have been told that have entered the cultural heritage of a people. Free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders. LitCharts Teacher Editions. It contains memories from Hong Kingston’s own life, written versions of her mother’s stories, and retellings of two famous warrior-woman legends. Buy the Hardcover Book Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston at Indigo.ca, Canada's largest bookstore. Character List. See a complete list of the characters in The Woman Warrior and in-depth analyses of Kingston, Brave Orchid, and Moon Orchid. Characters. Divided into five chapters, each of which is more or less self-contained, Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior explores the many forms of adversity that women face.

As I got around towards the middle, I could make sense of what was going on and found myself laughing. Brave Orchid. The last section of the chapter takes place in the present, during one of Kingston's visits to her see her parents. Kingston.
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston should not be judged until you reach its end. The Woman Warrior takes place during Kingston’s girlhood in Northern California in the 1940s and 1950s. Instant downloads of all 1305 LitChart PDFs (including The Woman Warrior). The Woman Warrior consists of five chapters: "No Name Woman," "White Tigers," "Shaman," "At the Western Palace," and "A Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe." Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior Chapter Summary. At the beginning it is confusing, disgusting and violent. Brave Orchid sits by the bed and complains about life in America, how hard her work in the laundry and now in the tomato fields is, how time passes too quickly in America. The first section of "White Tigers" is Kingston's childhood fantasy of living the life of Fa Mu Lan, the woman warrior—a story that derives from one of Brave Orchid's talk-stories. Find summaries for every chapter, including a The Woman Warrior Chapter Summary Chart to help you understand the book. 76 likes.

Teach your students to analyze literature like LitCharts does. The Woman Warrior Quotes Showing 1-30 of 38 “I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.” ― Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior. Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among the Ghosts (1976) weaves together elements from traditional Chinese folktales and incidents from the author’s experiences or family stories in five interconnected chapters.