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Maxine Hong Kingston's "The Woman Warrior", 2005.
Examines Chinese-American Maxine Hong Kingston's semi-autobiographical, semi-fictional book "The Woman Warrior", especially the first chapter 'No Name Woman'.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper explains that Wendy Ho scrutinizes Maxine Hong Kingston's book "The Woman Warrior" in her essay, "Mother Daughter Writing and the Politics of Race and Sex in Maxine Hong Kingston's 'The Woman Warrior". The author points out that Ho shows how, in this book, especially the first chapter 'No Name Woman', the various gender and racial confines in Kingston's life affect her relationship with her mother and Kingston's own identity formation. The paper also relates the way that Ho believes that the process of story telling in 'No Name Woman' helps free Kingston to break the oppressions of both her Chinese culture and the patriarchal system in which she lived.
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"Through the story of her aunt, Kingston's mother warns her daughter "now that you have started to menstruate, what happened to her could happen to you. Don't humiliate us. You wouldn't like to be forgotten as if you had never been born. The villagers are watchful." This quote exemplifies Ho's point that those in the Chinese society were especially fearful of women appearing to masculine, or at least, not appearing feminine; the survival of Chinese life depended on the maintenance of these strict roles."
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Maxine Hong Kingston's "Woman Warrior", 2005.
Review and analysis of Maxine Hong Kingston's novel, "The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts".
1,495 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 49.95
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This paper summarizes Kingston's novel about the relationship between past and present, mother and daughter. The paper explains how the novel is a book about self-discovery and that, through the juxtaposition of the social and political circumstances of the mother and daughter, as well as their personal experiences, the stories in Kingston's book lead the narrator in the novel to evolve into a confident woman with a better understanding of who she is.
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"The complexities involved with mother daughter relationships are seen in Maxine Hong Kingston?s The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. In this combination of fact and fiction Kingston engages us by demonstrating the difficulties a Chinese-American girl encounters as she tries to relate to her Chinese born mother. Through a series of tales, the narrator discovers a her mother?s character, which is inextricably connected to her past. The sharp contrast between mother and daughter exemplifies the socioeconomic and sociopolitical roles and constructs of its historical era. It is through the experience of her mother and those who came before her, that the narrator is able to embrace her present and future fully."
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Maxine Hong Kingston?s ?The Woman Warrior?, 2004.
This paper analyzes Maxine Hong Kingston?s ?The Woman Warrior, an autobiography including the myths and cultural beliefs culled from her Chinese heritage.
1,670 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 54.95
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The paper stresses that the book is not written from a Chinese viewpoint, but rather from the view of a first-generation, Chinese-American daughter of immigrant parents. The author points out that it is also a story of an adolescent girl?s journey into adulthood, the story of how one person integrates all elements of her life, including her relationship with her parents and other family members, into the composite of experience known as personality. The paper describes the relation of mother and daughter and states that the wear and tear on such a relationship must have been difficult for both the mother and the daughter; however, the result was an independent, strong, and valuable person.
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"The aunt, the no-name woman, becomes the ideal of courage, honor, and rebelliousness by refusing to name the father of her child and taking blame as well as responsibility. Taking the child with her into death is interpreted by the narrator as an act of love. Her mother reinforces (instills) this belief when she tells her, "Carrying the baby to the well shows loving ? Mothers who love their children take them along. It was probably a girl; there is some hope of forgiveness for boys." "
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Maxine Hong Kingston's "The Woman Warrior", 2004.
Discussion and analysis of Kingston's book, "The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts".
1,336 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper introduces, discusses, and analyzes the book, "The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts", by Maxine Hong Kingston. Specifically, it discusses why Kingston chooses to tell the stories of her mother and other female relatives, combining genres of autobiography, fantasy, fiction, and mythology, in order to illuminate her own identity.
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"In order to understand her relatives, and ultimately understand herself, Maxine Hong Kingston records the stories of her family in amusing and fanciful tales that point out the gap between the Chinese culture of her mother, and the American culture of Maxine and her siblings. Kingston's story is more than simply the age-old contest between mother and growing daughter, it is a struggle to understand a culture she is part of, and yet has never known. Often, her mother's actions make no sense to Maxine, living a comfortable life in the U.S. She has no understanding of hunger and want, and does not understand her mother's obsession with food, waste, and eating. She writes, "We'd have to face four- and five-day-old leftovers until we ate it all. The squid eye would keep appearing at breakfast and dinner until eaten. Sometimes brown masses sat on every dish."
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"Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass" ( F. Douglass ) and " Woman Warrior" ( Maxine Hong Kingston ), 1999.
Compares autobiographers' suffering under racism and sexism and their eventual physical, psychological & spiritual freedom.
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Frederick Douglass, in his autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself, and Maxine Hong Kingston, in her autobiography The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, tell of their struggle against and victory over the chains of racism and sexism.
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"Frederick Douglass, in his autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself, and Maxine Hong Kingston, in her autobiography The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, tell of their struggle against and victory over the chains of racism and sexism. Both Douglass and Kingston eventually find the freedom, identity and self-worth they seek, and both stories prove that the ideologies behind their oppression--that black men and Chinese women are inferior to whites--are not only bigoted but utterly wrong. Kingston and Douglass emerge from their oppression as shining examples of humanity at its most intelligent and determined to live in freedom.
Douglass struggles against his literal slavery and turns himself into an educated and independent human being. Kingston is ..."
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"The Woman Warrior" ( Maxine Hong Kingston ), 2002.
Analysis of the American-born writer's experiences and those of her Chinese-born mother.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 39.95
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Analysis of American-born writer's experiences and those of her Chinese-born mother. Differing customs, traditions and outlooks. Issues of gender. Family expectations for female children. Author's attempt to balance herself between two cultures. Difficulties faced by women in Chinese and American societies. Sense of loss and empowerment. Impact of Chinese woman warrior stories.
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"Gender issues are culturally defined, and gender can be one of the elements of culture shock occurring when a person moves from one culture to another. Maxine Hong Kingston's book The Woman Warrior is one of many stories by children of immigrants showing contrasts and tensions between the dual role the children assume, that of traditional child (a role imposed and expected by the parents) and that of American child (a role adopted by the children as they face the realities of their new culture). Her story takes a particular tack in that it also involves issues of gender, which have a special meaning in her culture and which bring about particular tensions given that the nature of gender roles in Chinese society are quite different from that in American society today. These tensions are evident in differences between her own experience in America and her ..."
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"Woman Warrior" ( Maxine Hong Kingston ) & "Fifth Chinese Daughter "( Jade Snow Wong ), 1999.
Examines autobiographical works on Chinese-American. experience, use of symbolism, acculturation & native traditions, child-parent relations.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 4 sources, $ 55.95
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The stories "The Sky Is Gray" by Ernest J. Gaines and "Angel of the Candy Counter" by Maya Angelou tell similar tales of young children visiting the dentist, and in both cases issues of a racist society are expressed in the seemingly simple act of going to the dentist to fix an aching tooth. Both stories are told in the first person and have the aura of a memory (which in Angelou's case it definitely is). In both stories, blacks are shown at a disadvantage at every turn, and the trip to the dentist is an occasion in each case to show ways in which blacks are made into second-class citizens. Another important theme is the need for strong parents, especially for the young black child facing the reality of racism in America.
Angelou's story comes from her autobiography and is in keeping with the overall tone of that work, a book that gains.."
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"The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston, 1992.
A review of the memoir of being a Chinese female in the U.S.
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""The Woman Warrior"
Maxine Hong Kingston published The Woman Warrior in 1976, and it was her memoir of being Chinese in America. In order to discover her identity, Kingston went back in time to learn about her mother and the other women in her family. She found that being a Chinese woman is a difficult task, and it is only "the woman warrior" who can survive.
Kingston's story begins 50 years before she was born and 30 years before the Chinese Revolution, in a small village in Kwangtung Province. The author tells the story of a woman who was her aunt. The woman's husband had gone ahead to America, and then the aunt had become pregnant by another man. The villagers were outraged, and the woman became a complete outcast.
This No Name Woman was literally ostracized by her..."
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Kingston's "The Woman Warrior" and McCourt's "Angela?s Ashes", 2004.
Compares the memoirs of Maxine Hong Kingston in her book, "The Woman Warrior", with the memoirs of Frank McCourt in his book, "Angela's Ashes".
1,891 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 60.95
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This paper summarizes and compares the memoirs of Frank McCourt and Maxine Hong Kingston. The paper looks at how each of the authors expresses him/herself and the motivation for writing their stories.
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"In their memoirs, The Woman Warrior and Angela?s Ashes, Maxine Hong Kingston and Frank McCourt, respectively, present unique and complete views of worlds that widely diverge from the sort of lifestyles and experiences that are enjoyed by the average citizens of the United States of America. Part of the most simple reason for this is their ?outsider? statues. As an immigrant, in Frank McCourt?s case, and as the child of immigrant parents, in Maxine Hong Kingston?s case, both memoirs are narratives of lives marked by travel, travail, and cultural differences that have an enormous and massive impact upon their authors? lives."
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"China Men and Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book" by Maxine Hong Kingston, 1992.
An argument of how the author moves from ethnic concerns to more universal issues including style, themes, vision of life and cross-cultural influences.
3,150 words (approx. 12.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 111.95
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"This study will examine Maxine Hong Kingston's works China Men and Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book. The thesis of the study will be that, in moving from the earlier China Men to the later Tripmaster Monkey, Kingston's work came to transcend the question of what it means to be Chinese, or Chinese-American, or American, and to focus instead on what it means to accept one's circumstances and to boldly forge one's personal and cultural identities based on the reality of those circumstances.
The argument of the study will be, then, that Kingston's earlier book focuses on the Chinese traditions which served as the foundation for the culture of Chinese-Americans, while the later book develops the character of one individual who has melded Chinese and American traditions to such a degree that something new emerged, something which, perhaps, transcends both..."
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Silence in "The Woman Warrior", 2004.
This paper offers an analysis of the implication of silence in Maxine Hong Kingston's "The Woman Warrior".
1,130 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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In this paper, the writer discusses the implication of silence that is portrayed in Maxine Hong Kingston's book "The Woman Warrior". The writer examines how this aspect of silence relates to the narrator's Chinese roots. Further, the writer explores the debilitating and empowering effects of the silence.
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"In Maxine Hong Kingston's "The Woman Warrior Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts" the concept of silence plays a significant role in illustrating concepts of gender, culture and prejudice. Above all, silence is used as a symbolic representation of the muting of individuality and individual expression due to gender culture and prejudice. These forces of gender culture and prejudice that undermine individuality and stifle expression manifest themselves both within the culture of the individual and the mainstream culture. Kingston's semi-autobiographical novel demonstrates the struggle ..."
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"The Woman Warrior", 2002.
A review of Maxine Hong Kingston's book "The Woman Warrior".
1,243 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 42.95
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This paper reviews the novel "The Woman Warrior" by Kingston, focusing on the issues of women in culturally different and foreign scenarios. The paper presents a background on the author Maxine Hong Kingston, as a woman born to a Chinese family in California and surrounded by Chinese culture and people. This, the writer believes, reflects in her writing. The paper presents the issues Kingston wrote of including women in Chinese culture and the mixing of the American and Chinese traditions.
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"Maxine Hong Kingston was born in 1940 in Stockton, California, to a Chinese immigrant family, and she grew up and lived in a Chinese community that followed the customs and tradition of its native land. The expectation for women in traditional Chinese society was as a wife or a slave, though in Kingston's family this expectation was considered an underachievement. Kingston herself would often be bombarded by negative comments directed towards her and her sister because the people in this more traditional Chinese community did not recognize the value of girl children."
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"The Woman Warrior", 2004.
An analysis of Maxine Hong Kingston's memory novel "The Woman Warrior."
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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The paper examines Maxine Hong Kingston's memory novel, "The Woman Warrior." The paper discusses gender and cultural issues and focuses on the oppression and status of women in China and the U.S. The paper also explores how to blend the Chinese-American heritage with feminism.
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"Whether born in pre-World War II, China or post-World War II America, whether conventional or rebellious, the female characters in Maxine Hong Kingston's "The Woman Warrior" are united by various forms of the oppression of women. In China gender discrimination was much more severe than in the United States. The stories of the Chinese women in Kingston's memory novel reveal not only their inferior status in Chinese society, but also their passivity that in a sense makes them enablers of their role."
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Ghosts in "The Woman's Warrior", 2002.
An examination of the concept of ghosts in Maxine Hong Kingston's novel "The Woman's Warrior".
1,435 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 47.95
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Chinese-American authors have played a very influential role in highlighting the atrocities of their native culture and in illustrating the problems that immigrants encounter when they move to the United States. The paper looks at the writings of Maxine Hong Kingston who termed all her problems and various cultural, ethnic and cultural obstacles as ?Ghosts? in her novel, ?The Woman Warrior?. This paper delves deeper into the subject of ghosts and explains what ghosts represented in this novel.
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"Immigration can be a painful and to a certain extent puzzling experience for those who leave behind a culture which was starkly different from the one they encountered upon immigration. We have heard and read numerous tales of immigration and related problems but Chinese people have probably been the most vocal about their experience in the United States. There have been numerous books on the subject and some of them have left an indelible impression on reader?s mind. One such book was written by Maxine Hong Kingston in 1976 titled ?The woman warrior?. In this novel, which is part fiction and part autobiography, author has described her experience as an immigrant in the United States with reference to her native culture and its restrictions."
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"The Woman Warrior", 2004.
A review of the book "The Woman Warrior" written by Maxine Hong Kingston.
906 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 32.95
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This paper discusses the central role played by aunts, the sisters of fathers or mothers who serve as surrogate female role models, in Maxine Hong Kingston?s "The Woman Warrior". The paper describes the main characters, claiming that they are not warrior women but actually embody the antithesis of the woman warrior-heroine. The paper contends that the protagonist of the story, a woman warrior, taught Kingston how to navigate the tricky path of being Chinese-American.
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"No-Name Woman and Moon Orchid are not necessarily innately weak; in fact, Kingston attempts to imbue both aunts with symbolic power and therefore both women are catalysts for Kingston?s growth and self-realization. Brave Orchid?s talk-story of No-Name Woman stimulates Kingston?s fertile imagination. Filling in the gaps of her mysterious aunt?s life, Kingston imagines what went on in her aunt?s psyche to lead her to her fate. As with many of the incidents and tales in The Woman Warrior, the story of No-Name Woman could indeed be a fiction, a tall tale her mother drew up for the sole purpose of frightening her daughter away from premarital sex. The No-Name Woman tale could have been a family myth, one passed on from mother to daughter for generations for that very purpose. Even if the aunt was real, Kingston has no way of discovering the truth and is thus forced to complete the picture of No-Name Woman herself."
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