the woman warrior: memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts

Sometimes referred to as a book without a genre, 'The Woman Warrior' has been described as a memoir, an autobiography, a novel, a manifesto; yet none of these labels really apply. Kingston herself says that to write autobiography is to stand at the borderline between memory and invention. hroughout the five chapters of The Woman Warrior, Kingston blends autobiography with old Chinese folktales. What results is a complex portrayal of the 20th century experiences of Chinese-Americans living in the U.S in the shadow of the Chinese Revolution.The Woman Warrior has been reported by the Modern Language Association as the most commonly taught text in modern university education. It has been used in disciplines as far reaching as American literature, anthropology, Asian studies, composition, education, psychology, sociology, and women's studies. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of Time Magazine's top nonfiction books of the 1970s.