Description
| Product ID: | 9781447275220 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Picador Classic |
| Title: | The Woman Warrior |
| Authors: | Author: Maxine Hong Kingston |
| Page Count: | 272 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: general, Autobiography: general |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A seminal piece of writing about emigration and identity <p><b>With an introduction by Xiaolu Guo</b><br><br><b>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.</b><br><br><i>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.</i><br><br>Throughout her childhood, Maxine Hong Kingston listened to her mother's 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.<br><br> Complex and beautiful, angry and adoring, Maxine Hong Kingston's <i>The Woman Warrior</i> 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.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2015-01-01 |