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book by Maxine Hong Kingston

This article is about the Maxine Hong Kingston memoir.

Why did maxine hong kingston write the woman warrior

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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is a book written by Chinese American author Maxine Hong Kingston and published by Alfred A. Knopf in The book blends autobiography with old Chinese folktales.

The Woman Warrior won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of TIME magazine's top nonfiction books of the s.^[1]

Genre

The specific genre of The Woman Warrior has been disputed due to Kingston's blend of perspectives, specifically traditional Chinese folktale and memoir.

With this mixture, Kingston tries to provide her audience with the cultural, familial, and personal context needed to understand her unique position as a first-generation Chinese-American woman.^[2]

Susan Stanford Friedman's assessment of autobiography with regard to women and minority groups