GREAT BOOKS 2: Maxine Hong Kingston's "The Woman Warrior" with Ava Chin
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English - December 05, 2018 16:18 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsBooks Arts Education society arts culture education literature nyih ulibaer Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
What stories should we remember, and which ones are we forced to forget? What if we discover a truth from the past that shaped us even though we didn't know it? Maxine Hong Kingston's 1975 masterpiece, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, transformed American literature by adding a voice that had been with us all along yet insufficiently recognized. The book gives expression to the experience of Chinese Americans, which Kingston splices, multiplies and amplifies in five powerful sections of a book that delve into Chinese mythology, the experience of immigrants, and the difficult and tenuous ways of passing stories from generation to generation. In my conversation with author and professor Ava Chin, who has been teaching The Woman Warrior for many years, we examine how this gripping book of one girl's coming of age teaches us to figure out which parts of us are true to ourselves, and which ones have been imposed on us by others.