The Woman Warrior

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"Maxine Hong Kingston, in The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, explores, among other themes, the significance of Asia in relation to America for the people in her book. Kingston examines the impact on herself and others of the cultural clash they experience as they try to fashion a hybrid reality out of contrasting American and Chinese cultures and perceptions of life. Among the many questions the book tries to answer in this regard, there are the following:
Chinese-Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, from what is Chinese? What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies? (Kingston 5-6)."

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