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# The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

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    The Woman Warrior was authored by Maxine Hong Kingston, ...
  

*by G***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 23, 2018*

The Woman Warrior was authored by Maxine Hong Kingston, a first generation Chinese immigrant, and published in 1976. This book can be understood in the historical context of the May Fourth Movement of 1919 and the 1949 Communist Takeover of China. The May Fourth Movement influenced a new wave of Chinese novels, many featuring a first-person point of view and themes of individualism and self-examination. This new literary and cultural movement led to a shift in attitude towards the education of women. In The Woman Warrior, Kingston’s mother Brave Orchid, decides to pursue a medical education which can be understood in this historical context. However, despite her progressive education, Kingston’s mother remained a traditionalist in many aspects of her life. The May Fourth Movement of 1919 also marked the emergence of the Chinese Communist Party. In “White Tigers” Kingston briefly touches the brutal treatment of her landowning, Chinese family members. Their letters, detailing the torture and execution of her relatives, further illustrate the contrast between her childhood tales and the reality of her life in America.As a whole, I believe the rich detail and shifts between fantastical descriptions of folklore and Kingston’s reality make the Woman Warrior interesting to read but ultimately difficult to comprehend without further analysis. The book is split into five chapters, each detailing an influence on Kingston’s life whether it be a Chinese legend told by her mother or an exaggerated account of her life in America.  The first part, No Name Woman, recounts the tragic death of Kingston’s paternal aunt, who was driven to suicide by her “shaming” of her community and family by having a baby out of wedlock. The second, White Tigers, is a story about the female warrior Fa Mu Lan presumably told to Kingston as a child by her mother. Shaman, the third chapter, shifts from a story about Brave Orchid’s medical education and her ghost stories to her life in the United States.At the Western Palace focuses on Kinston’s maternal aunt Moon Orchid who is pushed to seek out her husband in America but ultimately fails to rekindle her marriage. The final part, a Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe, is the most autobiographical, told from the first person point-of-view of Kingston.These powerful stories together illustrate the traditional role of women in Chinese society and Kingston’s struggle to find her own identity within those norms. The contrasting stories of Fa Mulan, her aunts, and her own life emphasize Kingston’s effort to find her own voice, both literally and figuratively. The novel’s content, as well as the passion with which Kingston writes, brings life to these stories, and ensures that they are powerfully alive on the page, making a lasting impression on the reader.

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    A complicated book to like
  

*by R***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 4, 2021*

I’m ashamed. I read Maxine Hong Kingston’s celebrated book The Woman Warrior and felt nothing. Maybe it’s because I’m not a woman; maybe it’s because I couldn’t decipher the Chinese parables that make up much of the book; maybe it’s because it simply was not what I expected. I’d thought it was a memoir—and it is, to some extent—but it is filled with flights of Chinese fancy. I do think I gained some insights into Chinese culture, but what I saw made me not like her mother much at all, with her firmly rooted old-world Chinese ways. Of the five sections of the book, the one titled At the Western Palace was the most captivating. But it portrayed Kingston’s mother as a pushy, demanding woman, lording it over her sister. Not a pretty picture. And then the last section showed a childhood Kingston as a total, cruel bully. I got the message. She was a product of her mother and had fairly good intentions with her bullying and even learned from it. But by then, for me, it was too late. So I left the memoir feeling like there was something wrong with me for not getting the message, for not liking a book that was a bestseller and won great acclaim, for feeling like a racist because I did not like the Chinese ways painted in the book for us readers.

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    A child’s view of her parents
  

*by K***X on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 25, 2021*

This book was difficult to get into. But about half way, it came together for me. This is The story of immigrant parents and their American born children. When the cultures are as different as Chinese and American, it’s easy to see how confusing this could be for a child.  To survive in America you had to be tough and you had to do it all alone without the  support of family, village or traditions, often not speaking English. This can easily be the story of any immigrant group trying to navigate life in America.  Hopefully it inspired compassion in the reader.

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