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Maxine Kingston's Literature, 2002.
An analysis of Maxine Kingston's contribution to contemporary literature by focusing on her novel "The Woman Warrior".
1,029 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper examines how Kingston's work is considered to be an important contribution on the feminist front as well as that of Asian literature. It analyzes "The Woman Warrior", which demonstrates the struggle experienced as a Chinese-American growing up in America as well as focusing on other issues such as success and mother-daughter relationships.
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"The Woman Warrior is formed from what many critics like to call fiction and fact and memory and imagination (Lauter 2094). The book examines the ?difficulties in Kingston?s development as a woman and as a Chinese-American? (2094). Because of it?s nature and style, the book demonstrates how stories can ?shape character and behavior? (2094). These stories are important because Kingston is able to develop her own sense of self by writing them. Kingston is able to learn from each character?s circumstance and is able to develop her own strength of character."
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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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"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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"The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston, 1992.
A review of the memoir of being a Chinese female in the U.S.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 39.95
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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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"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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Gender and Ethnic Identity in Asian American Film and Literature, 2002.
A look at the issues of gender and ethnic identity in Asian American film and literature through the review of the films " Double Happiness" and "The Wedding Banquet" and Maxine Hong Kingston's novel " The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghost
2,900 words (approx. 11.6 pages), 8 sources, $ 106.95
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This essay looks at the issues of gender and ethnic identity in two films and one novel, Double Happiness, The Wedding Banquet, and Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. These works provide the framework from which a reconsideration of ethnic and gender identity can take place. In these works, this reconsideration of identity centers on balancing old structures of identity with new experience and searching for a potential empowerment and confluence in the balancing the formation of a new identity.
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Chinese-American Literature, 2002.
An examination of contemporary Chinese-American literature and the common characteristics of this form of literature.
4,508 words (approx. 18.0 pages), 17 sources, MLA, $ 117.95
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This paper discusses the nature of modern literature written by Chinese-American authors. It analyzes common themes and trends in this literature style. Works examined include Eric Liu's "The Accidental Asian" and Maxine Hong Kingston's "The Woman Warrior". It also looks at Lisa See's "On Gold Mountain" and Amy Tan's novel "The Joy Luck Club". The paper discusses issues such as the language style used in these novels and common themes.
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"A substantial body of Chinese American writing emerged in the 1970s and the flow of novels, stories, poems, family histories and memoirs has grown steadily ever since. Although there is great variety among these (mostly) second-generation writers the predominant focus of their work has been on questions that have evolved around the phenomenon of being Asian in America. The majority of these writers have forgotten most of their Chinese, never having learned it much beyond their pre-school years, and they write about the difficulty of balancing on the biracial, bicultural cusp between the old-world ways of their parents and their own lives as speakers of American English functioning in a culture that was, and often remains, entirely foreign to their parents. As these American-born Chinese (ABCs) attempt to assess their own place in a nation where they constitute a very small percentage of a population that is sometimes hostile toward them they are also, like most immigrants' children, compelled to wonder about the culture from which they came. The dilemma of their own "Chineseness" is the question underlying all the works discussed here. But there are nearly as many ways of approaching the question as there are writers. The present discussion of various kinds of literary production by a number of contemporary Chinese-American writers will, therefore, concentrate on why writers chose particular forms, how these approaches facilitate the questions they want to ask, and what answers they have found to the essential question of what it means to be "Chinese" in America."
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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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From Old World China to the New World America, 2004.
This paper reviews three novels, based on the generational transition from China to America: Amy Tan?s ?Joy Luck Club? and ?The Bonesetter?s Daughter? and Maxine Kingston?s ?The Woman Warrior".
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This paper explains that Amy Tan and Maxine Kingston?s central themes reflect the inherent difficulties faced by the foreigners in a different land. The author points out that, in ?Joy Luck Club?, Amy Tan employs the stories of four Chinese women and their highly Americanized daughters, bred and born in America. The paper states that Maxine Kingston reveals a great deal about the Chinese convictions pertaining to their culture and traditions, which have many superstitious beliefs in her book, ?The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts?.
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"However, the basic problem that thoroughly reflects the uneven, unbalanced and highly disturbing transformation from the old world to the new world is that of the lack of comprehension and interest of the young girls that belonged to these four Chinese women. Born and brought up in America, Jing-Mei, Lena, Rose, and Waverly all exhibited little emotional attachment to the culture they never experienced living in a foreign land and consequently showed clandestine aversion towards their own native cultural values. The four Chinese women who were also good friends, wanted comforts, luxuries and all the positive American values for their Chinese American daughters but also desperately wanted to inculcate a strong sense of discipline arising out of the Chinese traditions and cultural values into their daughters."
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"Woman Warrior", 2004.
An analysis of the book, "Woman Warrior," written by Maxine Hong Kingston.
1,569 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 51.95
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This paper reviews the book, "Woman Warrior," written by Maxine Hong Kingston. The paper examines how Kingston uses dream and fantasy to tell her story. The paper explains that, for Kingston, dreams and fantasies are equally as important as real-life narratives, which only provide a sliver of the truth and a partial rendering of a person's experiences. The paper contends that all people spend a considerable number of hours dreaming, and Kingston's approach to memoirs honors and respects this essential aspect of human existence. The paper explains that dreams mirror and reflect our psychic impressions of daily life, and they offer insight into our egos, alter-egos, hopes, and fears.
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""Night after night my mother would talk-story until we fell asleep. I couldn't tell where the stories left off and the dreams began, her voice the voice of heroines in my sleep," (19). Maxine Hong Kingston's surreal memoir Woman Warrior weaves between dream life and waking reality, especially in the two chapters "White Tigers" and "Shaman." In these two chapters of the book, Kingston includes the rich imagery, content, and themes of her dreams, nightmares, and fantasies to more clearly illustrate her mundane daily experiences as a Chinese immigrant in the United States. In many ways her dreams more accurately reflect her psychological development, dreams, and desires than her real-life narratives do."
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