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Maxine Hong Kingston

The Woman Warrior


With an introduction by Xiaolu Gao. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for non-fiction 1976
2015. 272 S. 196 mm
Verlag/Jahr: MACMILLAN PUBLISHERS INTERNATIONAL; PICADOR 2015
ISBN: 1-447-27522-5 (1447275225)
Neue ISBN: 978-1-447-27522-0 (9781447275220)

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A seminal piece of writing about emigration and identity
With an introduction by Xiaolu Guo

A classic memoir set during the Chinese revolution of the 1940s and inspired by folklore, providing a unique insight into the life of an immigrant in America.

When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talking-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves. We could be heroines, swordswomen.

Throughout her childhood, Maxine Hong Kingston listened to her motherīs mesmerizing tales of a China where girls are worthless, tradition is exalted and only a strong, wily woman can scratch her way upwards. Growing up in a changing America, surrounded by Chinese myth and memory, this is her story of two cultures and one trenchant, lyrical journey into womanhood.

Complex and beautiful, angry and adoring, Maxine Hong Kingstonīs The Woman Warrior is a seminal piece of writing about emigration and identity. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1976 and is widely hailed as a feminist classic.
This is a delightful book . . . tells more than I ever imagined about the strangeness of being Chinese and a woman; it also gives a superb account of what itīs like simply to be alive Victoria Radin New Society
Hong Kingston, Maxine
Maxine Hong Kingston is a Chinese-American writer of fiction and non-fiction. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley.