"Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass" ( F. Douglass ) and " Woman Warrior" ( Maxine Hong Kingston ) Analytical Essay by The Research Group
"Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass" ( F. Douglass ) and " Woman Warrior" ( Maxine Hong Kingston )
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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