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Millcreek Virtual Book Club

The Woman Warrior

2021-04-28 10:30:00 2021-04-28 12:00:00 America/Denver Millcreek Virtual Book Club Come join our virtual book club for a discussion of The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston. Online Event -

Wednesday, April 28
10:30am - 12:00pm

Add to Calendar 2021-04-28 10:30:00 2021-04-28 12:00:00 America/Denver Millcreek Virtual Book Club Come join our virtual book club for a discussion of The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston. Online Event -

Come join our virtual book club for a discussion of The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston.

A first-generation Chinese-American woman recounts growing up in America within a tradition-bound Chinese family, and confronted with Chinese ghosts from the past and non-Chinese ghosts of the present.

In her award-winning book The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston created an entirely new form—an exhilarating blend of autobiography and mythology, of world and self, of hot rage and cool analysis. First published in 1976, it has become a classic in its innovative portrayal of multiple and intersecting identities—immigrant, female, Chinese, American. 

As a girl, Kingston lives in two confounding worlds: the California to which her parents have immigrated and the China of her mother’s “talk stories.” The fierce and wily women warriors of her mother’s tales clash jarringly with the harsh reality of female oppression out of which they come. Kingston’s sense of self emerges in the mystifying gaps in these stories, which she learns to fill with stories of her own. A warrior of words, she forges fractured myths and memories into an incandescent whole, achieving a new understanding of her family’s past and her own present.

204 pages (May 1976)

Email mccref@slcolibrary.org for details

AGE GROUP: | Adult |

EVENT TYPE: | Online | Book Club |

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