American Literature / Unit 18 AML 1712 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Maxine Hong Kingston and *The Woman Warrior*
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The idea
The witness says Kingston, author of The Woman Warrior of nineteen seventy-six, carved out a place for her fellow Asian Americans. The book mixes memoir with family stories and Chinese legend, and it is the text through which the identity question is usually taught.
In practice
Memoir and legend in one book.
Where people slip
It is not a novel and not only a memoir.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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