Synopsis
The Woman Warrior is a pungent, bitter, but beautifully written memoir of growing up Chinese American in Stockton, California.
Maxine Hong Kingston (China Men) distills the dire lessons of her mother’s mesmerizing “talk-story” tales of a China where girls are worthless, tradition is exalted and only a strong, wily woman can scratch her way upward.
The author’s America is a landscape of confounding white “ghosts”—the policeman ghost, the social worker ghost—with equally rigid, but very different rules.
Like the woman warrior of the title, Kingston carries the crimes against her family carved into her back by her parents in testimony to and defiance of the pain.
Maxine Hong Kingston (China Men) distills the dire lessons of her mother’s mesmerizing “talk-story” tales of a China where girls are worthless, tradition is exalted and only a strong, wily woman can scratch her way upward.
The author’s America is a landscape of confounding white “ghosts”—the policeman ghost, the social worker ghost—with equally rigid, but very different rules.
Like the woman warrior of the title, Kingston carries the crimes against her family carved into her back by her parents in testimony to and defiance of the pain.
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4 éditions pour ce livre
2015 
Editions Picador
252 pages
ISBN : 9781447275220
1989 Editions Vintage (Vintage International)
209 pages
1er janvier 1975
1989 Editions Vintage
204 pages
ISBN : 9780679721888
1981 Editions Picador
185 pages
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