History/GWS 249 Reading Guide
Chinese American Daughters
- Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976), finish.
Questions:
- How does Kingston describe the issues with which she was struggling? By what methods does Kingston capture that struggle? What has Kingston resolved by the end of her non-fictional account?
- How representative is her experience—or her rendition of her experience—as a second generation Chinese-American woman? Is that the point? Is that her point?
